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much in various circumstances, but simply as illustrating the 

 practice of these careful husbandmen. 



On a soil of a good quality, and on which wheat may be cul 

 tivated, the following rotation is sometimes observed : 



1. Potatoes. 



2. Wheat, with turnips sowed upon the stubble after the 

 harvest. 



Oats and clover. 



4. Clover. 



5. Rye, with turnips sowed upon the stubble after the 

 harvest. 



6. In grass, to remain as long as it is profitable. 



The farm, in a case like this, will be divided into as many por 

 tions as there are distinct crops, so that all will be growing on 

 the same farm at the same time. 



The following rotation is sometimes had : 



1. Wheat. 5. Clover. 



2. Rye and turnips. 6. Rape. 



3. Oats. 7. Potatoes. 



4. Flax. 



On a very strong soil the following rotation is given : 

 1. Potatoes, 2. Wheat. 3. Beans, 4. Rye, 5. Wheat, 6. Clover, 

 7. Turnips, 8. Flax, 9. Wheat, 10. Oats, 11. Fallow, 12. To 

 bacco, 13. Rye, 14. Oats. 



The following rotation is adopted upon a stiff soil : 



1. Potatoes, with twenty tons of dung per acre. 



2. Wheat, with three and a half tons, and fifty barrels of urine. 



3. Flax, with twelve tons of dung, fifty barrels of urine, and 

 five cwt. rape cake. 



4. Clover, with twenty barrels of wood ashes. 



5. Rye, with eight tons of dung, and fifty barrels of urine. 



6. Oats, with fifty barrels of urine. 



7. Buckwheat, without manure. 



On a rich loam the following rotation is pursued : 



1. Turnips, carrots, chicory. 



2. Oats and clover seed. 

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