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of the plougli, a drilled peas fallow Is nothing comparable to a 

 turnip one •, — beans, thouijjh enfier horfe-hoeil, are inadmilFible in 

 our late climate. In regard to a fecond year of cut hay, experi- 

 ence has, uniformly fhown, that it never produces half a crop ; 

 and, from want of thorouj];h cover, the land is fuflcred to run tq 

 weeds. As to one year's padure after hay j if the land has been 

 fo properly fown as to yield good hay, it cannot have fufliciency 

 of clofe fward to make good pafiure ; or, if fown thick enough 

 for good pafture the fecond year, the plants would ftarve one ano- 

 ther, and produce no weight of hay crop. Indeed, where feve- 

 ral years pafture is admitted into an extenfive rotation, by which 

 a farmer, whofe fituation fuits it, intends to go over all his farm, 

 with improvement ; it is recommended that the land fliould be 

 fown, entirely with a view to pafiure ; and fbould be paflured 

 from the firlt, without being cut at all. 



From fuch preliminary obfervations (which the following table 

 will make more plain), a calculation is inftituted of the relative 

 produce of a rotation of four and that of five fliifts. 



Four Shifts. 



Produce per Acre, 

 ift, Turnip, at 3I. los. per acre, deducting 2s. for 



feed, - - - L. 3 8 o 



ad, Barley, 8 bolls per acre, at i8s. per boll, de- 

 ducting half a boil for feed at ps. - 6150 

 ^d, Hay, at 200 ftone per acre, at 7xd. per ftone, 



deducing 17s. for feed - 580 



^ 4th, Oats, 7 bolls per acre, at 15 s. deducting one boll 



for feed - - - 4100 



L. 20 



The average produce of an acre, under this rotation, 

 is therefore 20I. is. divided among four, or 5I. 3d. 



Five Shifts. 



To efFe£i: this extent of rotation, a fecond cutting 

 of hay, or a year's pailure, muft be brought in after 

 No. 3d in the foregoing rotation, or elfe a crop of 

 peas after No. 4th. Neither of them would be profit- 

 able •, and, indeed, none of the above numbers would 

 be fo good as under the rotation of four fhifts. But 

 ;o afford all fair play to the five-fiiift rotation, v/e 

 fhall allow that all its crops fimilar to that of four 

 fhifts fliall be equally good ; and we fhall take the 

 fecond year's hay crop, or the year's pafiure after 

 hay, or the peas after oats, all of them at the value of 



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