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No. 3. 

 Course of Crops. 

 Potatoes 



Barley . 



Clover 

 Oats 

 Peas 

 Rye 

 Tares 

 Rye 



Meadow dunged 

 Besides 100 journals sheep pasture . . 



No. 4. 



Oats upon pasture ley . , • . 



Fallow, folded and sown both before and after winter and 



spring tares for fodder . . . , . 



Rye . ...... 



Peas . . , . . . 



Rye .... 



Potatoes .... 



Barley .... 



Clover, mown .... 



Ditto, pastured witli sheep during two years 

 Meadow (150 jouru..) dunged 



[Ch.VIII. 



Produce per Journ. 

 87 schefF. 

 12 

 24 cent. 



14 scheflf. 

 6 



10 



20 cent. 

 9 scheff. 



15 cent. 



14 scheff. 



20 cent. 

 10 scheff. 



6 



9 

 87 

 12 

 24 cent. 



15 



The produce of these various crops, both in fodder and manure as well as 

 in grain, and the profit gained by the feeding of stock, was then summed 

 up, and being calculated according to the price of grain, was reduced to 

 scheffels of rve, from which were deducted the charges of cultivation, tJius 

 affording a parallel between the different courses, as follows * : 



In following up any of these rotations, there are some fundamental prin- 

 ciples to be observed from which no prudent farmer should depart ; and in 

 order to be able to put them into execution, it is almost unnecessary to say, 

 that he should be perfectly master of the known theory as well as the 

 practical details of his business. On the latter point, especially, his 

 profits will be found mainly to depend ; for, unless he observe a strict and 

 judicious degree of economy in the application of his means, he will as- 

 suredly become the dupe of his ignorance. , If he has not already acquired 

 the proper experience, he should therefore seek, either by observation on 

 the practice of others, or rather by small comparative experiments of his 

 own, to ascertain what are the most suitable crops to be grown upon his 

 land, as well as the best mode of their disposal ; and he will do well to con- 



* These tables may be found in the quarto Atlas of Von ThUer's works on agriculture, 

 numbered respectively 3, 6, 7, and 9. The quantities of land were in some places larger 

 than here stated, but the produce has been in each propoitionably reduced, and the cost 

 of culture has been omitted, as being irrelevant to our charges. 



