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parish of Longfofgan, namely, i. Grass; 2. Wheat; 

 3. Barley; 4. Green crop; 5. Oats. 



On light soils of moderate quality, a five field course 

 is recommended by that intelligent farmer Mr Alexan- 

 der, viz. i. Turnips; 2. Grain; 3. Grass; 4. Grass; 

 5. Grain. 



Upon moss or peaty soils, after effectual draining, the 

 following course is recommended : i. Potatoes or tur- 

 nips ; 2. Barley or Bear; 3. Clover; 4. Pasture ; and, 

 5. Potato Oats, a most advantageous crop. 



Mr Maxwell of Fletton, in his Report of Hunting- 

 donshire, considers the following course of crops for 

 five years, as preferable to every other, i. A clean- 

 sing crop of whatever kind is best suited to the soil, 29 

 turnips, tares, or cole-seed, to be hoed, but not to stand 

 for seed ; 2. A crop of white corn of the kind best 

 suited to the soil, to be laid down with clover ; 3. Clo- 

 ver, either grazed or mowed; 4. Beans, sheep-fed and 

 hoed, or some such meliorating crop adapted to the 

 soil ; 5. White corn suited to the soil : and he contends, 

 that however various our soils, and however different in 

 their nature, the same order or course of cropping ought 

 to be pursued, (fen lands always excepted), changing 

 only the species of our corn and vegetables, and adapt- 

 ing them to the nature of the soil we have to work 

 upon. 



It is certain, that by such state of cropping, a soil of 

 tolerable natural fertility, .might not only be supported 

 without foreign aid, but might increase in fertility ; tut 

 Dr Coventry on this subject has well observed, that 

 when crops, intended to ripen their seed, are objects of 

 culture, there is only wanted a degree of vigour and 

 luxuriance in the plants, sufficient for that purpose ; and 

 if the fertility of the soil be raised to a higher pitch 



