APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING 



Extracts from " SKETCHES" published lij 

 J. B. BOADLEY, esq. Philadelphia. 



TO WHICH ARE ABDED 



OBSERVATIONS on the above, by the AUTHOR. 



Of the English old Rotation of Crops. 



UNTIL about the middle of the present 

 century one of the best common courses 

 of farming in England consisted of a fal- 

 low, which broke up and cleaned the 

 ground, but left the soil exposed to the 

 scorching sun during the hottest season, 

 without any shading crop : on this wheat 

 was sown ; peas or beans followed the 

 wheat crop ; then barley or oats (or both) 

 in rotation, on one moiety of the farm, 

 during ten or even twenty years : the other 

 moiety during that time being in common 

 pasture grasses. When a change was to 

 be made, the moiety in grass was plough- 



