27^4 ^^^ ROTATION OF CROPS. 



3ti yi»«*« Glorer to be mowed only twic«. The third 

 growth to be plowed in for raanui-e. 

 - 4th t/ear. Rye, or wheat, without jnanure. The wheat 



Luast be hoed. 



5 th 1/ear, Rye uiauui-ed. 



tith year. WiQter pease, sowed on the stubble, and co- 

 vered by one plowing and one harrowing. 



7th year. Rye manured, 



Sth year. Vetches, oats, and turnips to be fed off, and 

 potatoes: the whole well manured. 



yth year. Rye manured, on which clover is to be sown 

 in sprino' as before. 



Obsenrations. Observations oh this rotation of crops. 



Com o«cc in ^^ the first place it will be seen, that I take care to have a 

 ttro years. crop of com once in two years. If my clover interrupt this 

 course by occupying the land two 5^ears following, this is 

 balanced bj^ two successive crops of corn after the clover ; 

 the first without manure, the second with. 

 Croi>s charged As the land is rested by changing its produce, I do not 

 jj^jjjj sow clover on the same laud till after an interval of five years. 



CropcTcry My land produces a crop of some kind or other every 



year, with roa- ygg^j, j^j^^ j,j jj-ji,^ r^jj^jj^ years I manure it but four timee. 

 nure once ia i: -^ ., , i . • -c -^ ri 



years. Consequently 1 have twice as many crops as it it were tal- 



lowed every other year, without more expense of manure, 

 and I might almost say without more labour. 



It is particularly to be observed, that, except after the 



Pease do not clover, my land has never two successive crops of grain, un- 



exlKuist the j^^g |.jjg winter pease be reckoned so, which do not exhaust 



the land; and that it is so ordered, as to be cropped witli 



P .. . Corn one year, and with green feed or roots the next. This 



hi rejected ^* last rotation interposed between the crops of corn before the 



withouvciover. ^joyp^ comes round again, appears to do away the necessity 



of fallowing, without the assistance of clover, which however 



I am fur from wishing to exclude by tliis observation. 



ANNOTATION. 

 „ ' A continual succession of crops without fallowing has a 



constant crop- specious appearance ot ben)g profitable at first sight ; but 



as 



