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sity; and experience soon showed the advantage of those crops 

 which allow of summer tillage for the eradication of weeds. In 

 the first volume of this Journal will be found some account of a 

 rotation which is strictly adhered to in the neighbourhood of 

 Lilies, in French Flanders, and which need not be repeated here. 

 The following, which are inserted in the Outlines of Flemish 

 Husbandry, are taken from the work of Mr. Van Aelbrook, the 

 only Fleming who has written fully on the agriculture of his 

 country, and who may be considered as the patriarch of Flemish 

 husbandry, to which he has directed his attention during the whole 

 of his life, which is protracted considerably above fourscore years, 

 in the full enjoyment of his faculties : — 



No. I. 



This table gives the usual rotations on the poorest sands, where 

 it is in vain to attempt to raise wheat. The principal crops of 

 grain are rye, barley, and buckwheat; flax is introduced as a 

 necessary article for the domestic spinning and weaving, which 

 occupies the labourers and servants in winter, when there is no 

 work out of doors ; but it only recurs once in seven or eight years. 

 Rye and turnips recur frequently, and immediately after each 

 other; that is, rye is sown in autumn and reaped early next 

 summer^ the stubble is ploughed before the rye is out of the 



