Excerpt from Practical Notes, Grasses Grass Growing: East Anglia MY father and grandfather having farmed no small acreage in the good old times, when wheat was eighty shillings a quarter, and the attention paid to our layers and pastures was not so great, nor the subject of such importance as it is to-day, I attempted to follow in their footsteps, taking my first farm in the year 18 59. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.