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second, corn, or part corn and part turnips tlie tliird, grain the 

 fourtli, liiij fifth, sixth and seveiith. We do not pisture our tilled 

 lands, having plenty of broken and rockj laud for this purpose, 

 ■ffbich is unfit for tillage." 



Another sajs : 



" There is very little regularity in tliis matter, generally speaking. 

 The rotation uliicli I have adopted and found succcssliil, is for first 

 year potatoes, or part of other roots, on the sward, with five cords 

 green manure turned in; second year corn, witli ten cords good com- 

 post; third year, split the hills Avith a small plow and harrow cross- 

 ■wise, adding a little manure if I have it, and sow wheat or barley, 

 "with fifteen to twenty bushtds of gc^d hay chaff ([ grow my own 

 seed) to the acre. This I consider equal to so many pounds of clover, 

 and ^0 many pints of herds grass. Then cut hay for three years, 

 and pasture for two; so I get round in eight years, and find my 

 crops improving every time uith the treatment, iliiy yields about 

 three tons first year, two to two and a half the second, and one and 

 a half to two the third, varying with tlie season, hut the land being 

 in good heart, the difierenoe of seasons is not felt so much as on 

 poorer fields." 



Another says : 



"First year oats or buckwheat, second potatoes, third turnips or 

 sometimes corn, fourth -wheat and seeded down', fifth and sixth liay, 

 not forgetting a liberal coat of manure the first, second and tliiid 

 years." 



Our correspondent who writes thus from Washington county, is for- 

 tunate indeed, if he can command a " liberal supply " of manure for 

 half his tilled land every year. This is an excellent rotation with- 

 out doubt for his soil, and very likely to beget an annual increase of 

 manure. Most of our farmers, however, must for the present be 

 content with a "liberal coat of manure' for one year out of six; 

 and one desirable point to understand fully in this matter of rotation, 

 is, on what crop it will do the most good, both immediate and ulti- 

 mate. 



Another recommendation is : 



" Corn, potatoes or root^j the first year, also for the second, but 

 changing the particular ci op ; tliiid year grass seed, Avith a\ heat or 

 barley ; fourth, fifth and sixth yeai s, hay ; then plow and repeat." 



This, as a rule for practice, lacks definiteness, there being some 

 margin for choice between "corn, potatoes or roots," also in the 



