THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 71 



Here, let me repeat again my former remark. La- 

 bour and manure, are the basis of good farming. 



Is your farm so situated, that it may be cultivated 

 upon the principles of a general rotine of crops, (as 

 before laid down,) enter immediately upon this sys- 

 tem, and let this be your plan : 



1 . Assign so much of your farm to the purposes of 

 the plough, as you can manure well, either with plas- 

 ter, or the stronger manures, as before mentioned, 

 (see article Manure.) 



2. Keep no more lands under grass, for mowing, 

 than you can consume upon your farm with profita- 

 ble stock, unless in the neighbourhood of some large 

 town, where the sale of your hay will buy you ma- 

 nure. 



3. Keep no more stock upon your farm, than you 

 can keep well, either by pasturage, or soiling, and 

 for the following reasons : 



1. Because one acre of plough land, well manured, 

 will yield twice or thrice the product, as when tilled 

 without manure. For instance, suppose you have 

 20 acres of rye and wheat fallows, in a steady way. 

 Put 5 acres to clover, with plaster, the first year; 

 and put 5 acres more to clover the second year ; cut the * 

 first 5 acres of clover, and feed it upon your farm ; 

 continue to feed out your clover upon your farm, and 

 put the dung your clover has made, upon such part of 

 the remaining 10 acres as may need it most; sow 

 grain as usual, and the next year, viz. the third year, 

 stock down 5 acres more with clover, and turn in the 

 first five acres of clover, which you stocked down, to 

 supply the place of the third 5 acres you have now 

 stocked down. Thus you will have 10 acres of clo- 

 ver, and 10 under the plough, or in grain in a steady 

 way. After one rotation in this way, your 10 acres 

 kept under the plough, will yield you more grain, and 

 of a better quality than the 20 did before ; continue 

 this practice, and, in a few rotations, the 10 acres will 

 yield you double, or treble to what the whole 20 did 



