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one deep ploughing in June. Barley is 

 sown in October, on one ploughing, the 

 ground having been left clean and mellow 

 after inning the beans. Wheat is sown in 

 September on one ploughing of the clover. 

 What a saving of work ! Three crops on 

 only one ploughing for each, and performed 

 at leisure ! on ground in the mellowest con- 

 dition. The beans are ploughed for in 

 June ; the wheat in September ; the barley 

 in October; or, if preferred, in March. One 

 of them, a cleaning crop, "Is horse-hod or 

 shimmed without any interference with the 

 ploughings, and other work, in sowing the 

 wheat or barley. The clover, which is to 

 be ploughed in for beans, may be pastured 

 till June : or it may be kept up and mow- 

 ed for hay : this may be especially advan- 

 tageous on farms deficient in meadow ; as 

 there will then be two clover-fields for grass 

 and hay ; and moreover the ground of that 

 mown, will be preserved in a light and mel- 

 low state, to receive the bean-seed on the 

 one ploughing. 



