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ed in their fattening ; thus you have your pork clear, 

 besides the increased value of your lands. Try k 

 and see. 



Now is the time to begin the arrangement for your 

 rotine of crops, which will best promote the reve- 

 nue of your farm, with the best fertilizing improve- 

 ment for your lands. Hemp, carrots, onions and 

 buck-wheat, may be cultivated successively upon the 

 same grounds for many years ; but clover, potatoes 

 and Indian-corn, oats and barley, wheat and rye, will 

 not answer well for more than two years, without 

 high manuring ; and even then, they do best under a 

 change of crops ; flax will not succeed \v*ell upon the 

 same ground oftener than once in seven years, there- 

 fore, arrange your farm in such order as to have a re- 

 gular rotine, or succession of crops, once in 4, 5, 6, 

 or 7 years, according to the nature and circumstances 

 of your farm. Whenever you sow flax, oats, or bar- 

 ley, sow clover, as a fertilizing crop, or clover ami 

 timothy, or orchard-grass, (which by many is preferred 

 to timothy,) and stock down ; if with clover only, 

 for two years ; but if with clover and timothy, or or- 

 chard-grass, for four years ; then turn in your clover 

 for wheat, either with one, two, or three ploughings, 

 according to the quality of the soil, or other circum- 

 stances, and sow one and a half bushels to the acre in 

 the fall, or two in the spring, and dress with plaster. 



When your grass land has lain 4 years, turn in 

 your sward by deep ploughing, (say 8 or 10 inches 

 deep if possible,) and plant corn or potatoes, with ft 

 good dressing of compost, or yard dung in each hill ; 

 this will subdue your sward for a second crop of corr^ 

 or potatoes, the next year ; or any of the spring 

 grains you may choose; thus you may have a sue 

 cession of all the crops you may choose, without ex- 

 hausting your farm, even without manure ; but if you 

 use the clover as a fertilizing crop, your lands will 

 rise in their value under every rotine, and increase 

 your revenue. Buck-wheat may be one of your ro- 



