. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 90S niACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. with atiy pretentions to utilit)', by a reference to the particular circumstances
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 90S niACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. with atiy pretentions to utilit)', by a reference to the particular circumstances of eacli case; for the practice of one district, in regard to these and other points, will be found quite inapplicable to others where the soil and climate, and the purposes to which the pastures are ajjplied, are materially different. 5818. The weeding of pastures should be regularly attended to. Weeds in pastures injure the farmer by the ground they occiuiy, the seeds they disperse, and sometimes, by influencing the quality of milk, or the liealth of the cattle. 5819. On the Inrge scale of a farm small creeping weeds cannot he removed : but large perennial plants, such as the riotk, fern, nettle; and biennials, such as the thistle, and ragweed; together with rushes and coarse tufts or tussocks of tall oat-grass, should never be permitted to shoot up into flower. The dock ought to be taken out by the root with the dock-weeder, and the others cut over with spadlets or spuds. Nettles may be mown over, as may some other weeds, and some descriptions of rushes; fern is most efFectually killed by bruising or twisting asunder the stem, when the frond or lierb is nearly fully ex- panded. Smaller weeds may be mown, and this operation should never bL> deferred later than the ap- pearance of the flowers. Where the sloe-thorn forms part of the enclosure hedges, or the English elm, lioary poplar, and some other trees, grow in or around the lield, they are apt to send up suckers; these
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