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ROTATION OF CROPS. 



if your rotation is one of five years, with grass for two 

 years, call your several fields A, B, C, D, E, F, Gr. A 

 natural arrangement may be something like the follow- 



* Carrots, Turnips, Beets. 



Iii this way you always have eight acres of grass, four 

 of corn, four of rye, four of clover, four of potatoes, and 

 one or more each of beets, of carrots, and of turnips. 



714. Or you may have a still longer rotation, intro 

 ducing, after carrots, parsnips, after beets, cabbages, and 

 after turnips, pease and beans. 



You may save time in the management of the manure. 

 Tliis may be put in very abundantly before ploughing, 

 and also in the hills for corn, and before beets, carrots and 

 turnips, or before cabbages, parsnips, and pease and 

 beans ; thus being put in once or twice only in the whole 

 course. If mineral as well as other manures are used, 

 with the potatoes may be applied plaster, bones and ashes ; 

 with the corn, barn manure ; with beans; abundant plas 

 ter ; with the roots, guano, or sea manure, common salt, 

 plaster, bones dissolved in sulphuric acid, and ashes. 



