Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOURNAL Of THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. I. -- T/ie Management of Grass Land. By Robert Smith, late of Burley, Rutland. Prize Essay. The Grouses, numerous as they are, may be truly spoken of as indigenous to the whole earth: they seem to arise spontaneously, and are found to clothe the surface of every zone, taking a substance varying according to the soil and climate, and forcibly pointing out the importance of assimilating our modern culture to the waywardness of nature. The best grasses -- those which are most productive and nutritive -- are found in the more even climates -- such climates as have the least cold in winter, and no excess of heat in the summer: these attain a greater length and have less bottom-grass in the warm climates; and in the cooler ones there is a preponderance of bottom-grass, it being there found to spread more evenly or thicker near the ground, is of a darker green appearance, and less subject to run up to bents. No department of agriculture is more simple in execution than the general culture of the grasses; yet, from I heir great variety, and required adaptation to the various soils,