SEC. 25. All prosecutions for offences against the provisions of this Chapter shall be commenced within sixty days after the same shall have been committed and not afterwards. SEC. 26. Chapter 507, Chapter 627, Chapter 643 and Chapter 1025 of the Public Laws, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage. Prosecutions to be commenced within 60 days. 20 GRASS FARMING. BY T. S. GOLD. The first Farmers' Institute was held in Town Hall, Wickford, Friday, Nov. 11. B. H. Lawton, Esq., presided. T. S. Gold, Esq., Secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture, lectured on "Grass Farming." THE LECTURE. (Reported Stenographically by R. W. Jennings.) MR. GOLD. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, my remarks will be generally of a personal character connected with my knowledge and experience in regard to grass and grass farming,-a knowledge obtained by a residence on the hills of Connecticut, engaged for 70 years in agriculture, and by the opportunity of travel to all parts of the United States and some of the British possessions, having extended my travels from Maine on the north to Florida and Texas on the south, and as far west as California, with Colorado; also sections of Ontario and other parts of Canada. If I allude to things I have seen in those places at different times it is because they have impressed themselves upon my memory. The subject of grass and grass farming is one of great importance and lies at the foundation of all departments of husbandry. You cannot get away from it if you would, and you should not if you could. It is the sheet anchor, as we may say, of all our agricultural operations. By grass, we usually mean not only the strict grasses botanically, but also the clovers that are used as forage crops, and among the |