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for them, the rotation may be similar to that last mentioned. 

 With the aid of gypsum, crops of Indian corn may com- 

 rnonly be raised to advantage on such soils. 



Or, sometimes, the first crop should be potatoes, well 

 manured with dung; then Indian corn, manured with gyp- 

 sum; and, when the ears are somewhat hardened, let the 

 crop be cut up and carried off the field, to be set in shocks 

 to ripen, and the ground put in with wheat, and clover to 

 be sown in the Spring, as before. In some cases, perhaps, 

 a crop of pumpkins might precede the wheat-crop, to 

 advantage ; though this must in a great measure depend on 

 the quantity of pumpkins thai can be raised on any given 

 quantity of ground. 

 See PUMPKIN, 



5, A wet loam. The extent of the rotation, that can be 

 profitably pursued on lands of this description, must depend 

 much on the degree of superabundant moisture they con- 

 tain. Where they are quite wet, but few crops can be 

 raised on them, to advantage, except grasses. Such lands 

 are greatly improved by hollow-draining. 

 See HOLLOW DRAINS. 



Where they are but moderately wet, however, several 

 kinds of crops may be successfully grown on them, especi- 

 ally if the ground be raised in ridges ; though these are 

 calculated more readily to injure the land, by washing the 

 best parts of the soil away by heavy rains, if it lies consi- 

 derably .descending. In such case, it is most advisable to 

 carry the ridges in such direction as will give them but a 

 moderate descent. 



Such grounds are not suitable for roots, though potatoes 

 may be raised on them to some advantage. This may be 

 the first crop; and, in such case, let the ground be suffi- 

 ciently mellowed with ploughing, and then very shaliow 

 furrows run for forming the beds in which to lay the dung ; 

 and when the seed is laid it may be covered with a furrow 

 of a one-horse plough, run on each side, so that in this way 

 the growing roots will be more elevated than is necessary 

 in drier soils. 



By throwing up th* ground in high narrow ridges, after 

 the potatoes are taken off, the fermentation may more 

 readily be kept up for the crop of the next year. In this 

 state of the ground, a crop of Indian corn may often be 

 raised to advantage,,by mellowing the ground in the Spring-, 

 and planting on ridges to be raised by two furrows thrown 

 up against each other. 



Let the ground be thrown up in ridges again in the Fall; 

 and the next Spring sow it with oats, barley, or Summer- 

 wheat, according as the ground and the climate may be 

 :, suited for one or the other o* these crops, 



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