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1st Year, Turnips, or other Root Crop. 

 2nd ,, Wheat. 

 3rd ,, Barley. 

 4th ,, Clover. 

 5th ,, Wheat. 



153. It would be impossible to describe here, all the 

 various rotations which are in use, but these are taken 

 as representative cases, showing, in the first place, a 

 course of cropping founded on sound principles, and 

 afterwards altered for equally good reasons, so that the 

 growth of corn should in the one case be less frequent, 

 and in the other instance more frequent. 



154. In some cases we find what must be called 

 a bad rotation, for instance 



1st Year, Oats. 



2nd ,, Do. 



3rd ,, Wheat. 



4th and following years, Clover or Grass Seeds. 



Here we have all the conditions of a good rotation 

 (150) set aside. The land did not have proper culti- 

 vation for rendering it free from weeds. The applica- 

 tion of manure would, under such management, be 

 excessively small, even if any were used, and the re- 

 peated growth of corn without proper cultivation and 

 manure, is alike to the injury of the land, and the far- 

 mer. The land when laid down in clover or grass seed 

 would be as foul as it well could be, instead of being 

 so clean that the clover could fully occupy the ground, 

 and yield a rich and nutritious crop. 



155. The rotation adopted upon a farm must also be 

 regulated so as to secure an equal distribution of 

 the work throughout the year, and to give that 

 variety of food and litter which the system of 

 farming renders necessary. 



156. The success which has attended the continu- 

 ous growth of corn appears at first sight, to be in 

 direct opposition to the theory of the rotation of crops, 

 we have referred to. It has been most satisfactorily 



