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5th. Oats, and then the land let out for a few years 

 as before. If the land be in good condition, barley 

 generally follows this crop of oats, but the foil muft 

 be highly manured; after this follow oats, and then 

 flax, and fuffered to reft as before. 



Here are eight fucceffive crops running, without 

 any kind of meliorating crop. 



There are many however, who follow a better fy- 

 tenv, they flop after the laft crop of barley, by which 

 means the land is let out in good heart, and, of courfe, 

 will come round for a fecond courfe in a fhorter 

 time. 



To this practice, if the fowing of grafs-feeds and 

 clover, when the latter might be thought to fucceed, 

 was added, 'much benefit would certainly enfue. 



3d. Courfe, commonly followed in mountainy fitu- 

 ations. 



1 potatoes. 



2 oats. 



3 oats. 



In fome mountainy fituations, a third crop of oats 

 is taken off, but this rarely happens. 



In boggy marfhy fituations, a fourth fyftem is fol- 

 lowed, which I look upon to be the moft profitable 

 of any. 



Part of the foil is burned for alhes, fufficient to 

 manure a crop of potatoes. Two crops are generally 

 taken off, and then it is laid down, moft commonly with 



black 



