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field is fully f^ocl.ed with faintfoin. I fliould not, however, advifc 

 faintfoin to he much trultcd to on your land ; as I undcrfland its 

 appropriate foil to be that which is incumbent on a liaieftone 

 gravel. 



Upon the whole, the fyllem, of rotation which I v/ould recom- 

 mend as the iTioit advilrahle for improving your old grafs-land, is 

 as follows, ifl year, Break up the hay for a crop of oats. 2d 

 year, Give the land a perfect fallow, well dunged, and few 

 •wheat before winter. 3d year. The land is occupied by the wheat 

 crop, and the ftubble is ploughed before winter, as a prepa- 

 ration for the enfuing crop of beans. 4th year, Beans drilled, 

 horfe-hocd, hand-hoed, and carefully weeded : The bean-ftubble 

 ploughed before winter, previous to the enfuing crop of barley. 

 5th year, The land gets three ploughings, as formerly directed, 

 and is fown Vvdth barley and hay-feeds. 6th year. One crop of 

 hay is cut, and the after-math is pailured : or the after-math may 

 be dunged and ploughed down for wheat. 7th year, The one 

 year's lay is ploughed once for a crop of oats, or the land is un- 

 der a crop of wheat. If a fufHciency of dung can be fpared, with- 

 out robbing the regular fallows of the farm, and if there is no ab- 

 folute necemty for the after-math in paflure, the wheat may very 

 properly be taken in this year. In either cafe, the ftubble muil 

 be ploughed up before winter, preparatory to the fubfequent fal- 

 low. 8th year, The land gets a perfed fallow, and is fowed with 

 wheat, well dunged. After this crop of wheat, in the ninth year 

 of the rotation, either the fame courfe goes round again, or, what 

 I coniider as more advifeable, the land is thrown into the courfe 

 of rotation recommended for improving the old tillage-lands. In 

 the latter cafe, the land in future is to be kept under thefe two ro- 

 tations alternately. 



If the land has been broken up from old grafs, by pairing and 

 fod-burning, the courfe I fhould recommend is very iimiiar to the 

 foregoing, as follows : 



ifl year. Sod-burning, fown with rape. 2d year, Rape, the 

 ftubble ploughed before winter. 3d year, Perfe6V fallow, dunged and 

 fown with wheat. 4th year. Wheat, the ftubble ploughed before 

 winter. 5th year. Drilled beans. 6th year, Barley, with hay- 

 feeds. 7th year. Hay ; the after-math paftured, or dunged and 

 ploughed down for wheat. 8th year, Oats or wheat. 9th year, 

 Perfe£l fallow, well dunged for wheat ; and fo round again, but 

 •without the fod-burning or rape : Or rather, as before recom- 

 mended, commencing one courfe of the rotation already pointed 

 out for the old tillage-lands. 



After the two kinds of land have been brought to an equality, 

 by each having undergone the courfes of rotation above recom- 



mer.ded;. 



