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Page 160 - Bedford's experiments is from the sea-meadow grass. Nature has provided in all permanent pastures a mixture of various grasses, the produce of which differs at different seasons. Where pastures are to be made artificially, such a mixture ought to be imitated ; and, perhaps, pastures superior to the natural ones may be made by selecting due proportions of those species of grasses fitted for the soil which...