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It is what we generally call di Jjx -field fyft em.* As 

 I look upon turnips to b.e the grand bafis upon 

 which the beft fupcrflrudure of pradlical huf- 

 bandrycan be raifed, I (hall begin with them. 



ifl year^ Turnips, 



2d year. Barley, with grafs feeds. 



As our lands have been fown fo frequently with 

 broad clover as to become tired with it, I have 

 fubftituted the following mixture in its place, viz. 

 four pounds of white Dutch, fix pounds of marl 

 grafs, and one buHicl of hop and ray-grafs, which 

 I have found to fuccecd. 



3d year, Grafs, 



Mown, not fuffering any cattle to be depaftured on 

 it later than Ocl:ober; as I have feen many a good 

 plant of grafs deftroyed by winter feeding. 



4th year. Feed, 

 fth year. Wheat. 



The land lying under grafs two years, it gets 

 clofe, and will be a means to prevent the wheat from 

 what is generally calkd foiaider/irg in the fpring. 



• This Jix-feUJjiflem, or, fyftem of a courfe of crops for fix years, 

 is a moft excellent one ; and its utility is further proved by the 

 general pra6Vice of the befl: fanners in SutTolk and Norfolk, upon 

 fimilar foils; but it is cullomary in thofe counties to break up the 

 layer in the fpring of the fifth year, and dibble in peafc ; and fow 

 wheat in the fixth year after the pcafe ; as they find the wheat gene- 

 rally better after a crop of peafe, tl.an when fown or phinted upon 

 the layer ; and they think the land lefs exhaufted by a crop of pcalc 

 fuccccdcd by wheat, than by a crop of oats following the wlreat. 



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