240 AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS. 



Both wheat and potatoes have been reckoned exhausting 

 crops ; but this mode of culture shows that great crops of both 

 may be long alternately produced ; which may probahJy be im- 

 puted to the culture by the spade and hoe,to the manuring every 

 s econd year for potatoes, to the careful destroying of weeds, to 

 the planting and sowing in proper season, and to the prevent 

 ing the earth from being too loose, (by the mode of sowing 

 the wheat before the potatoes aye taken up.) 



An experienced farmer is of opinion that the same culture 

 and succession of crops, will answer in almost any land, if 

 properly drained and skilfully managed ; for that althoug'h 

 strong land does not answer well for potatoes, nor very light 

 land for wheat, yet that cultivation and manure, (and .particu. 

 larly the manure of lime) will soon render strong land, when 

 elrained, more loose ; and will make light land more firm, es- 

 pecially if cultivated with the spade and hoe. 



