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In Whately, first year, Indian corn ; second year, oats, and 

 laid down with herds grass and clover, and remains in grass 

 three years. 



On much of the meadow land in Deerfield, the first year the '\'^ 

 land is in corn ; the succeeding year pease and oats, and so on 

 continually. The corn is manured in the hill. The land, 

 after the corn is gathered, is sometimes sown with winter rye. 



In some parts of Deerfield, the usual rotation is, first year, 

 corn, usually manured in the hill ; the second year, spring • 

 wheat, or wheat and oats, or pease and oats, or rye with south- 

 ern clover ; third year, clover ; and then plough again. 



The best farmers universally advise to sow the southern or 

 June clover with grain, to be ploughed in with the stubble 

 where the land is not to remain in grass, with a view to enrich 

 the land. If the grain is winter grain, the clover is usually sown 

 in the spring before the snow has left the ground, at the rate of 

 a bushel of clover chaff or clover seed not cleaned, or else at 

 the rate of six or seven pounds of cleaned seed. One of the 

 most experienced farmers in the town has been accustomed to 

 sow rye and clover together on the same land for a succession 

 of years ; in which case the clover and stubble were always 

 ploughed in together for the purpose of enriching the land for 

 the succeeding crop, and in this process he states that the con- 

 dition of the land was continually growing better. The crops, 

 however, at best were not large. 



I think proper here to mention the statement of another farm- 

 er, a man of much intelligence and experience, in confirmation 

 of the experience of two other farmers referred to in a former 

 report, that it is much better that the clover should be withered 

 or dead when it is ploughed in rather than in a green or succu 

 lent state. 



In some instances, as in Sunderland for example, broom corn 

 is repeated several years in succession on the same land, and, as it 

 is stated, without a diminution of product. In these cases, the 

 crop is manured in the hill every year ; and the corn stalks, af- 

 ter the brush is gathered, are burnt upon the land. 

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