Stt'iBui'es on Farm-Mananement near London, Febi 



mended, they may be thrown together, and the whole farm may 

 then be carried on under a uniform courfe of rotation, compound- 

 ed of the two kinds taken alternately, or what may be termed a 

 double fhift. By this means the foil will be continually prefer- 

 ved in full productive vigour, and its fertility will be always ex- 

 erted to the greateil pofTible advantage. 



In this fecondary courfe of rotation, after the lands have been 

 brought into full order, refpe6t muft be had to the general conve- 

 nience of the farm-bufinefs, fo as not to accumulate too much 

 ivork in any particular year, and always to have a convenient 

 proportion of the whole in hay for winter fodder, and in pallure 

 for keeping the flock in fummer. 



I think I lee you fmile, while you read this long-extended plan 

 of operations, as being calculated, like an entail, to tie down fu- 

 ture generations, according to the ideas of the prefent race. In 

 the length of time this courfe of hufbandry will take to go through, 

 you will mofl properly obje61, that improvements in agriculture 

 may occur, fuflicient to alter all our prefent views and ideas. This 

 is moft certainly true : But, in all operations, we ought unquef- 

 tionably to let out upon fome regularly-arranged plan, previoufly 

 contrived to the beft of our fkill ; and this muft be afterwards 

 modified, altered, and amended, as circumftances arife, or as far- 

 ther experience and improved judgment iliall guide. 



I by no means incline to fix you to the lift of crops which I have 

 propofed, and mean only to ibow diftinctly the general principle, ac» 

 cording to my beft judgment in the matter, by which two crops of 

 what is called njohite corn fliall never fucceed each other, but ftiall al- 

 ways have either a perfecl fallow, a fallow crop, a green or herbage 

 crop, or pafture interpofed. The general principle upon which I 

 proceed is this, that pafture is invariably to be made fubfervient to 

 tillage ; to freftien and ameliorate the foil, but never perfifted in 

 fo long as to run the foil into weeds, inftead of profitable pafture- 

 plants : and, reciprocally, tillage is as invariably to be made fub- 

 fervient to pafture, by extirpating weeds from the foil, but never 

 continued fo long as to exhauft its vigour, either for fubfequent 

 pafture, or for after-tillage-crops. By this plan, the two modes 

 of occupancy of land, tillage and pafture, are made to yield the 

 greateft poflible profit to the occupier : And, by conftantly kcepn 

 ing up the produdivencfs of the foil in full vigour, it is likewifc 

 the beft poTible mode of managing land for the benefit of tlie pro- 

 prietor ; as lancl which is perfe6lly clean, and in perfed vigour fo-r 

 vegetable production, will always draw its full rental-value when 

 ©ffered for tenantcy. Yours, &:c. 



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