An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 SS4 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. proper for a cow pa
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 SS4 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. proper for a cow pasture, and conjectures that those plants, being found among good ones, have qualities- given them which do not properly belong to them : he is likewise inclined to make the same conjecture in respect to narrow-leaved plantain, ribwort, or rib-grass, and should even have preferred dandelion and sorrel to it; but he is cautious of opposing theory to practice. 5627. Dr. Anderson states, that narrow-leaved plantain or rib-grass is well liked by horses and cattle, and yields a very good crop upon rich ground tending to dampness, if it is at the same time soft and spongy ; but that upon any soil which has a tendency to bind, or upon dry ground, it furnishes a very scanty crop. It has been made use of in some parts of Yorkshire as a summer grass. As an article of pasturage for cattle and shee]), it is there in high esteem : it is not, however, well eaten by horses. As an article of hay, it is held to be detrimental to the crop; retaining its sap an unusual length of time, and when fully dry falling into a small compass, or being broken into fragments and left behind in the field. .IliSS. T/ie culture of the plantain is the same as that of clover; its seed is about the same size, and con- sequently the same proportion of it will sow an acre. 5629. The xvhm,furze, or gorze {Ajonc, Joiic viarin, Gen4t epineux, Fr.; f/Nex europas'^a L.,fig. 780.), is a well known shrub, found wild on dr
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