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here called the “* feven-field hufbandry”’ now gene- 
rally obtains; that is, about a feventh part fainfoin, 
and the remainder under the following routine; 
turnips, barley, feeds two years, wheat, oats. A 
part of the wheat ftubble is fometimes fowed with 
peas, but generally more with a view to home con- 
fumption than for fale, that crop being very pre- 
carious, if often repeated. Vetches are likewife 
frequently, though not fo often as they fhould be, 
fubftituted for the oat crop, to be eaten.on the land 
with fheep, or mowed for horfes and other ftock. 
The management of the crops requires to be more 
particularly defcribed. 
Sainfoin.—This diftrict ftands one of the firft in 
‘the cultivation of this excellent grafs; the ufual 
management has been to fow it with barley, after 
turnips, three bufhels per acre, to which is generally 
added about five pounds of trefoil, which generally 
improves the firft year’s produce, and by occupy- 
ing the foil, prevents the weeds from getting a-head 
till the fainfoin has eftablifhed its roots. There 
are fome very fuperior managers, however, who, 
having been induced from an accidental occurrence 
to think a different procedure would be more ad- 
vantageous, tried it with fo much fuccefs, that they 
have conftantly adhered to it fince. The method 
alluded to, is to fow it on land exhaufted by re- 
peated cropping and full of couch grafs; the fain- 
foin rooting fo deep, does not draw its nourifhment 
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