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5. Clover manured. 



6. Wheat. 



7. Beans. 



8. Barley. 



9. Beans. 



On similar lands in Staffordshire, fallow, wheat, oats and two 

 years' seeds rang the changes, and on the thin stapled clays 

 of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire a still greater resemblance 

 to the old three-field system was observable. On the heaviest 

 soils of Essex the practice of a single crop and fallow was still 

 in fashion. Even on light soils the Norfolk four-course rota- 

 tion was not by any means universal. Two crops of barley 

 came between turnips and seeds in Hertfordshire ; wheat suc- 

 ceeded turnips in many parts of Sussex ; a pernicious economy, 

 for it compelled the farmer to feed his turnips off with sheep 

 before they were ripe. Wheat, barley or beans, oats and a 

 fallow were the commonest course in Dorset, though the writer 

 of the report recommends as a substitute — wheat, turnips, Lent 

 grain with seeds and clover. In Oxfordshire on the common 

 fields the rotation was : — 



Thus it will be seen that bare-fallowing was still largely 

 practised; and, in their correspondence with the Board, agricul- 

 turists even from the more enlightened districts felt it worth 



