3 io TRAVELS THROUGH 



fhort, feldom or never exceeding 

 years. The open fields are thrown intq 

 extremely different modes, fuch as, i. Fal- 

 low, 2. Wheat, 3. Millet. i. Maiz, 

 2. Barley, 3. Clover, 4. Wheat, 5. Millet ; 

 alfo, i. Fallow, 2. Rye, 3. Barley, and 

 pthers. Wheat yields from two quarters to 

 three ; barley two and an half $ rye the 

 fame ; millet not fo much as of wheat ; 

 and in the barley year, harvefl being very 

 early, they have a full crop of clover in the 

 fame year, after the barley is reaped j ancj, 

 fome farmers fow clover, with this view, 

 among all forts of grain, and feldom fail of 

 a crop of hay as well as of corn the fame 

 year on the land, never, if they have the 

 command of water. Many other farmers, 

 who adhere to a nominal courfe of, i. Fal- 

 low, 2. Wheat, throw in a crop of maiz 

 in the year of fallow; but it is reckoned 

 very bad management, as exhauiling the 

 ground too much. At other times, which 

 they think a very good way, they fow it 

 thick, and mow it green for hay, of which 

 it makes excellent ; and, from an acre well 

 dunged, they will yield five loads of hay, 



