Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick / Translated from the Latin [of the 'Amoenitates academicae' of C. Linnaeus], with notes by Benj. Stillingfleet.

Date:
1759
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Credit: Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick / Translated from the Latin [of the 'Amoenitates academicae' of C. Linnaeus], with notes by Benj. Stillingfleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 2°3 ) chances to have a large proportion of good feeds, it is not unlikely, but that what he intends for dry land may come from moifl, where it grew naturally, and the contrary. This is fuch a flo- venly method of proceeding, as one would think could not poffibly prevail univerfally; yet this is the cafe as to all grades except the darnel grafs, and what is known in fome few counties by the name of the Suffolk grafs; and this latter in- ftance is owing, i believe, more to the foil than any care of the hufbandmaq. Now would the farmer be at the pains of feparating once in his life half a pint, or a pint of the different kinds of gdod grafs feeds, and take care to fow them fe~ parately 5 in a very little time ho would have wherewithal to flock his farm properly, accord¬ ing to the nature of each foil, and might at the fame time fpread thefe feeds feparately over the nation by fupplying the feed-fhops. The num¬ ber of graffes fit for the farmer is, i believe, final]; perhaps half a dozen, or half a fcore are all he need to cultivate 5 and how final! the trouble would be of fuch a talk, and how great the be¬ nefit, muft be obvious to every one at firft fight. Would not any one be looked on as wild who fhould fow wheat, barley, oats, rye, peas, beans, vetches, buck-wheat, turneps and weeds of all forts together ? yet how is it much lefs ab- furd to do what is equivalent in relation to graffes ?