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1st year — Corn and roots, well manured. 



2d year — Wheat. 



3d year — Clover — one or more years, according to fertility 

 and amount of manure at hand. 

 Four-course system : — 



1st year — Corn and roots, with all the manure. 



2d year — Barley — or peas — or both. 



3d year — Wheat. 



4th year — Clover — one or more years. 

 Oats is a severe crop any where in a rotation ; an excellent farmer 

 who adopts the preceding three-shift system, never permits oats to 

 grow on land fit for wheat, but confines the crop exclusively to the 

 more moist parts of his farm otherwise devoted to meadow and pas- 

 ture. 



The following diagram will exhibit, to such as may not be familiar 

 with the subject, the manner in which a field may be laid out into 

 fields, and each one allotted to its regular course for a long term of 

 years. The rotation of Willis Gaylord, already mentioned, is select- 

 ed ; and the column given has only to be repeated to extend the crop- 

 ping to a perpetual series of years. 



It may be needless to multiply examples for practice. The prin- 

 ciples already laid down in a former part of this essay, will enable the 

 cultivator to vary the preceding instances to suit circumstances ; and 

 the more the subject is examined, the more interesting will its inves- 



