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wheat is very favourable to young clover. la addition 

 to the rotation of crops, which begin by a fallow, there 

 is another courfe, which muft be adverted to, that upon 

 land, which, by the aid of lime or marie, is enabled to 

 produce, independent of a fallow j many farms having 

 been drefled with thefe manures at a great expenfe, a 

 judicious management of them is of great confequence; 

 this courfe, from the enriching qualities of thefe fub- 

 flances, which make a total change in the land, may 

 admit of a greater latitude, and a lay of clover or grafs 

 may very properly be confidered as not much inferior 

 to a fallow. The courfes, which I have oblerved as 

 mod deferving attention on land fo improved, that had 

 been for fome years in grafs, and, confequently, free 

 from weeds, and which had acquired a pretty ftrong 

 fward, are as follows; fir ft, oats on one ploughing, 

 the furrows well cleared, fo as to afford an additional 

 covering to the feed; fecondly, wheat, often on one 

 ploughing, and often very good ; third, barley, two or 

 three ploughings, the produce great : with this laft 

 clover or grafs are fown, and the land fuffered to lie 

 for three years ; where the grouad is light, wheat is 

 ofttft the firft crop after grafs ; and when *he foil is qf 

 that nature, the wheat fhould be followed by barley, 

 and laid down again. In this way land may be kept 

 clean and in good heart for a number of years. A 

 Ikilful farmer, in the neighbourhood of Lifburn, told 

 ine, that, by managing his fields in this way, at the end 



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