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place, generally, when the animal has ac- al quired its full growth or proper size, that n W

the same season. In colts foot, tussilago farfara, and some

other species, the leaves of one season are found to surround,. prepare, it is thought, or protect the stem-buds of the next. r ‘The case may be somewhat different in the grasses, yet still: this circumstance is worth regard; for the stems rising on a : the uneaten spots are more forward in springing than those| al on other parts of the same field, which have been closely}|‘a cropped through the fall of the year. Vegetation pro-|: f ceeds most favourably, vigorously and rapidly, when the| ah different parts of any plant bear a just proportion to one another; and the growth of the roots is sensibly affected by 4 uy the deficiency of foliage, and wice versa. Close feeding_ then, and, perhaps, close mowing also, by destroying too| ti many of the common leaves, may, as formerly hinted, enfeeble the herbage and render the produce comparatively| i scanty, and likewise less nourishing: Hence over stocking)" may occasion the rot in sheep. In seems owing to the circumstance now mentioned, that Ny in pasture fields those spots of coarse grass,(coarse or long A from age, for the species may be the same) though in spring ny swept down by the sithe and left as bare as any other in them, are invariably the first which send up stems in summer; and i these being disrelished by pasturing stock, are left to cumber i isin

again the surface. Thus, the same spots assume their for.

mer appearance on the return of another fall, and what they