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Show lllil I ii(IMi 3leixt. Froluihly there nre no meadows in tho ' world so good ns thoso In l'ngland or so old. Yit from tho tarly Anglo-Saxon times old meadow has been distinguished I from "pistures" And has alwas len scarce. Two-thirds of what ii now established es-tablished meadow land still shows the marks of rldgo and furrow, und from tho great time riqulrtd to make n meadow leu ca at leist on the best laifd hundred on tho worst menhiiio ulviis biiu rtluctant tu break up old posture. The nucieut meadows, wlththclr great tries und close, rich turf, uro tho solo portion of tho earth's surfuco which modiru ngrkulturo respects uud kuus in inuce. Hence the excellence of tho nuadows of i-ugland und thoemyot tho American. Londuu bpectttor. |
