*iBz On a Sultahh Roiathn of Crop!. -^y^' 



T will therefore mention another rotation, in which pafliire 

 gralTc's are introduced ; and thougli, I believe, it is but feldom 

 followed, yer I e;in lay from experience, that I have tried it more 

 tlian once, and not without fuccefs : ill, Fallow; 2d, wheat; 

 3d, grafs *, 4th, oats ; 5th, drilled peas and beans ; 6th, barley, 

 after four ploughings ; 7th, palture •, 8th, pafture ; 9th, oats. I 

 know very well, that this rotation v/ill be reprobated by fome a- 

 griculturilbs, becaufe the pailure grades are fow^n at too re- 

 mote a period from tlie fallow and dung ^ and confequently, the 

 benefit to be derived from them will be thereby confiderably 

 lelTened. I will not attempt to defend this fyftem from every ob- 

 jection •, but ihall only obferve, that the farmer may fometimes 

 find it necelVary to adopt fuch a rotation on a part of his lands, 

 from particular cireumftanees, which not unfrequently occur m 

 the management of a farm confiiling chiefly of wettiih foil ; and 

 I am of opinion, when a few years pailure are intended, that the 

 fowing grafs-feeds among wheat is not fo proper as with a crop of 

 barley. There can be no objecl:ion againll fowing them with 

 wheat, when only one year's cutting or pafture is intended j but 

 for two or more years pafture, I have no hefitation in faying, bar« 

 ley is the belt crop to fow down with. I am likewife inclined to 

 hazard the alTertion, that when the land is fown down with fal- 

 low-wheat, and afterwards paftured for three or four years, the 

 farmer will often fmd it neceliary to fummer-fallow again after his 

 lea-oats, 



A great many more rotations might be mentioned, ftriClly com- 

 patible with the well known law in modern hufbandry, * not to 

 have two culmiferous or white crops in immediate fuccelhon, ' 

 which the judicious farmer wdll revolve in his mind, fo as duly 

 to appreciate their merits. But perhaps what I have already writ- 

 ten ib long enough, both for the reader and the writer. However, 

 I flatter myfelf, it may be a means of exciting others of greater 

 ability to turn their thoughts on the fubjecl. I will therefore 

 conclude, with recommending a change of the fyftem of cropping 

 on the fame farm, and I have no doubt the farmer will find his 

 account in it. Suppofmg, for example, that the rotation has 

 been, lil, fallow; 2d, wheat; 3d, peas or beans; 4th, barley; 

 5th, grafs ; 6th, oats. — Let another rotation be followed, wdiere 

 grafs is fown among the fallow crop ; and, in order to diverfify 

 die fyllem of cropping as much as polhble, it may not be impro- 

 per fometimes to take oats after fallow without dung, and apply 

 dung to fome of the fueceeding crops. I remain, Sir, your con- 

 ftant reader, and a friend to your publication, 



EaJl'LotlMim, February 1804. OdSERVATOR* 



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