SEASON FOR PLANTING. 



You must have a winter fallow for summer- turnips: 

 you cannot have them follow vetches, unless you 

 sow them first, and transplant them afterwards. 

 In short, without the Corn, the land cannot, hy 

 any means, he made to produce more than two- 

 thirds of what it might be made to produce by 

 the cultivation of corn, as one of the great crops 

 of a farm. 



53. I mean to say this, that a crop of wheat 

 may be grown one year, and a crop of Corn 

 the next year, on good land, which is not wet 

 land, and that this may be continued for any 

 number of years, with a less portion of manure 

 than is usually required in the present course of 

 crops, and I would always have vetches sowed after 

 the wheat ; the vetclies fed off in the spring, and 

 the ploughing and the corn-planting following 

 close upon the heels of the fold until the first 

 week of June, or at least till the last day in May. 

 Observe, too, that this corn-planting comes after 

 all the rest of the seed-season is over ; it gives a 

 little more of employment for another month ; it 

 keeps the labourers busy, and that, too, in the 

 most pleasant season of the year, when they would, 

 otherwise, have little or nothing to do. 



