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fore, in the rotation in this respect, or some other mode 

 of application for the time, would be advisable. Mr 

 Dudgeon of Prora suggests, that perhaps barley on the 

 fallow, having been BO little sown for many years past, 

 would be extremely productive, but barley is a preca- 

 rious crop without dung or some substitute, and the 

 price of wheat is so much better, that until some change 

 takes place in that respect, a different system can hardly 

 be adopted. It is singular that this suggestion should 

 correspond with the rotation most common in Essex, 

 namely, i. Fallow ; i. Barley; 3. Clover; 4. Wheat; 

 5. Barley or oats,-; the dung being laid on the fallow 

 for barley, and some on the clover for wheat. The Es- 

 sex farmers have, it is said, found by long experience, 

 that barley is a better crop after fallow, than wheat, the 

 great pulverization that the soil receives during the fal- 

 low, being admirably calculated for that crop. 



Siien years Rotation. 



Some farmers have tried a rotation of seven crops. 

 Mr Cunninghame, near Perth, who rents about L. 1200 

 per annum, has adopted the following course : i. One- 

 seventh potato and naked fallow; 2. Wheat; 3. Beans; 

 4. Wheat, when the season admits ; 5. Barley; 6. Grass ; 

 7. Oats, or sometimes a few acres after grass sown with 

 wheat, after three furrows and a little dung. 



Mr Allan of Craigcrook near Edinburgh has adopt- 

 ed the following rotation with success : I. Fallow ; 

 2. Wheat without dung; 3. Drilled Pease and Beans 

 with dung, or Tares without dung ; 4. Wheat ; 5. Beans, 

 or Tares with dung ; 6. Wheat ; 7. Beans and Tares. 



