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command, and which he gave to the bean crop. He also 

 ploughed nine inches deep, with a plough, which Mr 

 Young denominates the best tool ever invented *. 



Others have also followed a similar system; for in- 

 stance, x. Potatoes, cabbages, or hoed crops, with ma- 

 nure; 2. Wheat ; and, 3. Clover or grass : Or, i. Hoed 

 crop, with manure ; 2. Half oats, and half barley; 3. 

 Clover or grass. 



Dr Coventry has made some observations upon these 

 courses, to which he urges the following objections. 

 i. That there is rather too large a proportion of fallow 

 or cleansing crop, more than what can be wanted in or- 

 dinary situations, to preserve the land free of weeds. 2. 

 By there being but one-third bearing corn, it is less pro- 

 fitable than it might be. 3. There are two species of 

 crops in the first example ; which circumstance does not 

 permit the labour to be sufficiently divided and extend- 

 ed over the year, and leaves too much to be risked on 

 the success of a particular crop. 4. The quantity of 

 straw obtained for food or litter, to live stock, must b 

 rather scanty, or in a deficient proportion to what will 

 in general be wanted. 



The advantages of such a system, he states, in the fol- 

 lowing terms, i. From the great proportion of green 

 crops in this course, much manure will be procured, 

 somewhat more, perhaps, than may be necessary. 2. 

 This scheme is calculated to render or preserve the land 

 very clean of weeds. It may therefore answer as a be- 

 ginaing course, in situations where the ground is foul, 



* Mr Young proposes drawing up for the Board of Agri- 

 culture, an account of this eminent farmer ; to which ho in- 

 tends to add the lives of Bakcwell and of Ducket. 



