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not fully an ameliorating crop, unless culti- 

 vated and well horse-hoed in the intervals 

 between the rows. Neither are turnips or 

 potatoes good fallow crops, unless they are 

 cultivated in the like manner. They always 

 are on manured ground. English field-peas 

 soon covering and shading the ground, even 

 when sown broad-cast, and not horse-hoed, 

 are good fallow crops. 



Of the American old Rotation of Crops. 



When in America a farm is divided into 

 three fields, the common course is maize, 

 wheat (or rye), and spontaneous rubbish 

 pasture. When in four fields, it is maize, 

 naked fallow, wheat, and the like mean 

 pasture : or maize, wheat, lay or poor 

 pasture during two years. And whilst in 

 some parts of America the fields are four or 

 five, in other parts the divisions are as low 

 as two. Although five are better than four; 

 and four better than three ; yet the best of 

 these admit not of a proper course or rota- 

 tion of crops, especially when maize is one 



