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RIVER FARM 



DIRECTIONS CONCERNING CROPS FOR THE RIVER FARM, AND 

 OPERATIONS THEREON, FOR THE YEAR 1800 



Field No. 1. Is now partly in wheat ; part is to be sown 

 with oats; another part may be sown with pease, broad 

 cast ; part is in meadow, and will remain so ; the most broken, 

 washed, and indifferent part is to remain uncultivated, but 

 to be harrowed and smoothed in the spring, and the worst 

 portions, if practicable, to be covered with litter, straw, 

 weeds, or any kind of vegetable rubbish, to prevent them 

 from running into gullies. 



No. 2. One fourth is to be in corn, and to be sown 

 with wheat; another fourth in buckwheat and pease, half of 

 it in the one, and half in the other, sown in April, to be 

 ploughed in as a green dressing, and by actual experiment 

 to ascertain which is best. The whole of this fourth is to 

 be sown with wheat also; another fourth part is to be naked 

 fallow for wheat; and the other and last quarter to be ap 

 propriated for pumpkins, cymlins, turnips, Yateman pease, 

 in hills, and such other things of this kind as may be required ; 

 and to be sown likewise with rye, after they are taken off, for 

 seed. 



No. 3. Is now in wheat, to be harvested in the year 1800 ; 

 the stubble of which, immediately after harvest, is to be 

 ploughed in and sown thin with rye; and such parts thereof 

 as are low, or produce a luxuriant growth of grain, are to 

 have grass-seeds sprinkled over them. The whole for sheep to 

 run on in the day (but housed at night) during the winter 

 and spring months. If it should be found expedient, part 



