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drains to be repaired. The land is thus ready to receive 

 the seed at a proper period ; by which means the succes- 

 sive crops are greatly encouraged, (the ground being in 

 complete order to yield its produce), and less dung an- 

 swers the same purpose for a succession of crops *. 



Nor is this all. Another most intelligent correspon- 

 dent, (Mr Wood of Millrig), states in the most decided 

 terms, that naked fallow has paid him much better than 

 drilled crops, from their after consequences, as the 

 broad leafed clover succeeds so well after summer- fal- 

 low, which it never can do after the bean or the turnip, 

 for their roots take away the nourishment of the earth 

 where the clover-ropt is fed. The bean or pea also, are 

 great encouragers of the white snail, a determined enemy 

 to red clover. The root of clover, being of the carrot 

 substance, is a great enricher of the earth, and the grass 

 of it produces more feed than any other usually sown. 

 Luxuriant crops of oats likewise, always follow red 

 clover f. 



* Hints by Mr Drummond of Westbank. 



f Mr Wood, in another communication, enforces the same 

 doftrine. He remarks, that Mr Young, in his Survey of Ox- 

 fordshire, is very decidedly of opinion, that clovers will nt t 

 continue to thrive well in the fourth or fifth course cf agri- 

 culture. But Mr Wood c.tn freely declare, from many years 

 experience, that there is little or no danger of clover succeed- 

 ing every fourth or fifth year, provided a complete summer- 

 fallow intervenes betwixt the clovers ; but if green crops are 

 to serve as a substitute for a fallow, he has found in that case, 

 in the same field, the clovers give way, when they succeeded on 

 the fallow part of the ground, the green crop roots taking away 

 that nourishment which is necessary for the support of thr 

 clorer plant and perhaps, being of a green nature, that may 

 have some effect. He could clearly see it is the farmer's inreres; 

 to make some imaginary sacrifice to insure red clover, ;is it cati 

 easily be reduced into calculation, that it is the best crop, 

 when pastured judiciously, for nourishing the earth, the roorj 

 being upon an acre more weighty than the weight of bsu" or 



