CROPS AND PROFITS 



(the first cuttings being succeeded by turnips) : 

 Second, carrots, Mangel, or potatoes: Third, 

 oats or other cereal : and Fourth, clover with 

 grass seeds, to be mown so long as the interests 

 of the dairy or the land may demand. 



A professed grain-grower, or an English 

 farmer, would smile at such an unstudied rota- 

 tion; but I name it in all confidence, as one 

 adapted to dairy purposes, upon lands which 

 need recuperation. It is, in fact, a succession 

 of two fallow crops, and with proper culture 

 and dressings, will insure accumulating fer- 

 tility. 



Such a simple course of green cropping is, 

 moreover, admirably adapted to the system of 

 soiling, which, upon all light and smooth lands, 

 adapted to dairy purposes, in the neighborhood 

 of towns, must sooner or later become the pre- 

 vailing method; and this,— because it is eco- 

 nomic, — because it is sure, and because it sup- 

 plies fourfold more of enriching material than 

 belongs to any other system, I am not writ- 

 ing a didactic book, or offering any challenge 

 to the agricultural critics (who, I am afraid, 

 are as full of their little jealousies as the liter- 

 ary critics),— else I would devote a full chap- 

 ter to this theory of soiling, and press strongly 

 what I believe to be its advantages. 



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