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being divided into eleven fields or portions, there are two in 

 potatoes ; two in wheat, with stubble turnips after it ; two oats with 

 clover; two clover; two rye and turnips; and one in artificial 

 grass : — 



No. ir. 



Table of Rotations for tlie richest kind of Light Soil. 



* If clover is sown with the flax it is cut in the second year, and another year is added to the 

 rotation : but it is more usual to sow carrots with the flax, and sow oats or barley the second year. 



The rotation in Table II. is calculated for a tolerably rich 

 light loam, and it is only by the application of a very considerable 

 portion of manure that this rotation can be adopted. Here the 

 flax recurs sooner than in the first table. The first rotation in 

 the table includes one crop of flax, two of wheat, two of rye, and 

 one of potatoes, in seven years. Wheat generally follows potatoes, 

 and rye always comes after wheat. This again does not accord 

 with modern notions of agriculture in England. As a specimen 

 of the quantity of manure used in a rotation on a good compact 

 loam, we will give one from Mr. Radcliffe's report of the agri- 

 culture of Flanders : — 



1. Potatoes . * 20 tons of dung per acre. 



2. Wheat . . 3^ tons of dung, and 50 barrels of cows' urine. 



3. Flax ... 12 tons of dung, 50 barrels of urine, and 5 cwt. 



of rape-cake. 



4. Clover . . 20 bushels of wood-ashes (top dressing). 



5. Rye . . . 8 tons of dung, and 50 barrels of urine. 



6. Oats ... 50 barrels of urine. 



7. Buckwheat . No manure. 



Here then are 43 tons of dung, 200 barrels of urine, 5 cwt. of 



