Cultivation of Arable Land. Wheat. Crops cultivated after. u 



cafes be practifed to advantage on the heavier turnip foils, efpecially where they 

 have been kept clean from weeds by repeated hoeing, and confumcd upon the 

 land, at fuch early periods as to admit of the ground being prepared by once 

 ploughing in a light manner. The late crops on the lighter forts of land may 

 be more properly managed by fowing them with fpring wheat, or leaving them 

 for barley, for either of which they may be prepared by two or three mallow 

 ploughings. Spring wheat in this mode of preparation has, in fome cafes, been, 

 found to approach that of the autumnal fowing. 



Where the turnip crops are late, and cannot be confumed in fufficient time for 

 the land to be prepared fo as that the feed may be put in before December, it is 

 probably the moft fafe method to let it remain to be fown in the fpring, as by 

 fuch means there will bean opportunity of getting the ground into a proper ftate 

 of preparation for the reception of the feed, which could not otherwife be the 

 cafe. And under fuch circumflances it is undoubtedly the moft advantageous 

 plan to employ that fort of wheat which is ufually known by the name of fpring 

 wheat , as from its early nature it is more adapted to be fown at fuch a feafon. 



Where this fort of crop is intended to be cultivated after potatoes, which 

 as they have a great tendency to lighten the foil in a very great degree, as well 

 as to exhauft it, fliould never be the cafe on the lighter forts of land in backward 

 Ctuations, or under any circumftances where a fufticient proportion of manure 

 has not been applied for the potatoe crops, one light ploughing immediately before 

 the feed is put in may be in moft cafes an adequate preparation, as where proper 

 attention has been beftowcd in the culture of fuch crops, the foil is generally left 

 in a fufficiently fine condition. 



It has, indeed, been obferved by an intelligent cultivator, that the caufe of 

 \vheat not fucceeding well after potatoe crops in many inftances is, that, befides 

 the land being rendered too light and porous by the growth and cultivation that 

 are requifite for them, the wheat is more expofed to the injurious attacks of the 

 grub, earth-worm, and other infects ; and in fome expofed fituations, from the 

 feed-time being too long protracted, the practice becomes obvioufly improper.* 



In fituations where flax and hemp are grown, this kind of grain may frequently 

 be cultivated to advantage after them, in which circumftances, as weeds are apt 

 to rife, it is always proper that the land fliould be ploughed over two or three 

 times, in order that a fine ftate of tilth may be produced. The cuftom of giving 



* Middleton, in Report of Middlefex, 



