Pasture grass -seed

I was on about discarding olde tomes: one in particular Freams Elements of Agriculture (1918) which gives an inviting view of the state of the art of modern Ag 100 years ago. hint: the are no fuck-off big tractors status symbols / icons of conspicuous consumption, diesel division. Carbon hoof-print of a pair of clydesdale plough-horses is much less than our Yaris run-about. Gotta add, though, that when a tractor is not working it is inert, while horses need calories 24/7/52 whether they are working or not.A bonus in this copy of Fream's Elt Agri is hand-written notes by the owner in the 1930s."Hold heads horizontally and dose slowly", indeed. For this purpose, rain water is fit for purpose, and a mix of copper and nicotine is supposed to be an effective anthelminthic.Student of Fream 1930s also records a suitable mix for re-seeding to permanent pasture.Then as now, Lolium perenne is recognised and the queen of pasture grass, but an ecosystem of other species is thrown into the…