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Rye or corn, 



Beets, 



Spring cereals, 



Clover with dressing in autumn. 



Glover is sown in the spring of the third year and 

 dressing is applied in the fourth year for fall plough- 

 ing. Here in Canada, the three year system might be 

 adopted as follows : 



Rye, oats, potatoes, 

 Fodder plants with dressing, 

 Beets, 

 or 



Fodder plants with dressing, 



Corn, rye or oats, 



Beets. 



This latter mode would perhaps give smaller 

 crops, but the beets would generally be better. 



When dealing with very rich lands, a beet crop 

 must always be preceded by a crop of cereals, and 

 the land mast not be manured between them if it is 

 desired to secure good beets giving excellent juice. 

 The crop of the preceding year is in itself a sort of 

 dressing. That which is left in the soil, the straw 

 for example,is buried in ploughing, and when decom- 

 posed gives its elements to the new generation of 

 plants that are developing. It is thus easily under- 

 stood that a good system of rotation is important in 

 cultivating the beet, which in great measure profits 

 by the quantity often large of the various leavings of 



