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rows of beans on each ridge, nine inches from row to row, 

 and twcnlv-feven inches interval. Scarit'v, horfe-hoe, and 

 ploush between the intervals, fo as to keep a fine tilth, and 

 to dcftroy the weeds. When the beans are fit for harvefting 

 pull them, and when carried oft' the land pulverize the tops 

 of the fame ridoes l)y fcarifying, rolling, and working with 

 the fixed harrow ; and, if any furface-weeds appear, fkim the 

 land wiih the fcufflers ; and by repeating thefe operations 

 prepare the fanv: ri'Jges for wheat, and drill two rows on each 

 ridge nine inches from row to row. In the fpring harrow 

 acrofs, &c. as di reeled for the oat crop. Should the farmer 

 with to fubftitute cabbages for turnips, one row fhould be 

 planted on each ridge, fetting the plants two feet and a half 

 from each other in rows, with three-feet intervals. In this 

 fucccflion of crops, viz. turnips or cabbages, oats of barley, 

 beans, peafe and clover, and wheat, even this naturally fte- 

 rile foil will be in a conRant (late of improvement : and if 

 the vegetable crops and ftraw be expended in the mod ad- 

 vantageous method upon the farm, the land may be drefled 

 with fourteen loads per acre twice in four years, viz. for the 

 turnip or cabbage crop, and for the bean, pea, aijd clover 

 crop. , I fliall not, therefore, limit the number of years for 

 keeping it in tillage to any precife term, as it appears to me 

 immaterial J but proceed to point nut the bed method of fe- 

 curing a good n^-adow whenever the occupier may wifh it *. 

 We will fuppofe the land cropped eight years in the ro- 

 tation of crops before recommended, and at the expiration 

 of that term, a wheat ftubble. The firft ojjcration I fliould 

 recommend would be to drain the land fo as to take off the 

 furface water, for nothing more can be efl'efted by draining 

 thefe lands, as they will hold water like a bucket; aiKl were 

 the driiins cat ever fo deep, and only fix inches from each 

 other, the water would not draw from one to the other. The 

 method I fliall propofe is eal'y and efKcacious, and the ex- 

 penfe very trifling. I fpeak with confidence, as almofl the 

 whole parifli of Elitcham, in Suffolk, where twenty years 

 back it was thought impoffible to crow barlcv, now produces 

 fine and heavy crops of that grain, by the furface water being 

 taken ofl'expeditioufly. Open furrows in tlie wheat ftubble 

 with the common jilough, about five yards from each other, 

 and as df.ep as the land was ever plouo;hed and fcarified. 

 Then with a narrow gripping-fnade, twenty inches long, 



• Old grafs lands converted into tillage, though thcv might be ploughed 

 Ijy a judiciotis fyiU'm of cropping for any number of years, if naturally 

 crude and unpro(hi6livc, fhould not, F thii)l<, be fovvn with jjrafs feeds in 

 kfs than eight years. — Note by Mr. Coll. 



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