120 



> SecondRound 

 Acres. - 



of dropping. 



I. Summer-fallow, turnips 1 ^ , ,. . 



J. ist division, 200 2d divis. 



and beans, 3 



3. Wheat, ad, 200 3d, 



3. Clover, one year old, 3d, 200 4th 



4. Clover, two years old, 4th, 2co 5th 



5. Wheat and oats, jth, 200 ist 



Total, 1000 



It is intended to shift the turnip and the bean allot- 

 ments every time to different ground. 



By sowing down with clover the second division an- 

 nually, and breaking up annually the fourth, it comes 

 into the place of the fifth, which is taken off regularly 

 for summer fallow after the wheat and oats. It is thus 

 placed into the first division, and of course changes all 

 the divisions round, as often as that mode of agriculture 

 is followed. By this means, the farm is always kept 

 under the same crops, only the different divisions are 

 changed alternately. Mr Wood considers this system as 

 peculiarly calculated for farms at a distance from large 

 towns, as all the divisions would be maintained in a high 

 state of cultivation and fertility. 



Another sort of double rotation is, where a part of a 

 farm is preserved in grass for three, four or five years ; 

 then brought into the regular rotation, and another field 

 taken out of it. An intelligent farmer, Mr Thomson at 

 Bewlie in Roxburghshire, has adopted this plan with 

 much success. His rotation upon the dry soil division 

 of his farm is, i. Turnips or fallow i 2. Wheat, barley, 

 or oats ; 3. Clover, partly cut and partly pastured ; and, 



