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Agriculture," originally published 

 ii» tlie Albany Argus, recommends 

 the following rotations of crops as 

 bcft adapted to the northern parts 

 of the Ufuted States. 



" Meditm) course m sandy soils : 

 1st year, potatoes dunged ; 2d. 

 rye, with turnips after harvest, 

 consumed on the fields; 3d. oats 

 arid clover, or barley, and clover; 

 4th, clover; 5fh, wheat, with tur- 

 nips after harvest consumtd on the 

 field ; and 6lh, pease, or lupins, 

 or lentils. We have by thiscoursf 

 eight crops in nix years, and five 

 of ihfse ameliorating crops. 



" Medium course iii loamy soils : 

 1st year, potatoes dunged ; 'id 

 year wheat, with turnips as in the 

 preceding- course; 3d )ear, Indian 

 Cora and pumpkins ; 4th year, 

 wheat and turnips as before. Ir, 

 this course we have nine crops ir< 

 six years — five of which are amc 

 liorating crops. And 



" Medium course in clay soils : 

 first year, oats with clover; 2d. 

 clover; 3d, wheat; 4th, bean^ 

 dunged ; 5lh, wheat; 6th, the yel 

 low vetchlirig." 



An able writer in the Massacbu 

 setts Agricultural Repository. Vol. 

 V. p. 334, recommends the follow- 

 ing rotation of crops, as best adapt- 

 ed to the general state of agricul- 

 ture in Massachusetts ; viz. 



1st year. After breaking up 

 the sward, oats, sown thick, to bt 

 cut for" fodder. 



2d year. Potatoes or Indian 

 corn or both. 



3d year. Carrots or turnips or 

 both. 



4th year. Barley or wheat, sown 

 with clover and herds'-grass or red 

 top. 



5th year. Clover mowed. 



6th year. Herds'-grass and clo- 

 ver. 



In the autumn of the sixth year 

 land to be broken up, and on the 

 •-eventh year the same rotation re- 

 commences. See Indian Corn and 

 Flax, 



ROWEL, a kind of issue, or ar- 

 trticial wound, made in the skin of 

 a horse, by drawing a skein of silk, 

 thiv-ad or hair, through the nape of 

 the neck, or some other part, an- 

 swerirrg to what surgeons call a 

 seton. 



Horses are rowelled for inward 

 strains, especially about the shoul- 

 ders or hips, or for hard swellings 

 that are not easily dissolved. The 

 rowel may be made in almost any 

 [)art, and should always be not far 

 from the diseased part, and about 

 a hand breadth beneath it. The 

 two ends of the rowel should be 

 tied together, that it may not come 

 out, and be smeared with lard, or 

 fresh butter, before it is put in. 

 Afterwards, it should be daily 

 smeared again, and drawn back- 

 wards and forwards, that the putrid 

 matter may discharge itself. 



What are called rowels by the 

 English Farriers are made as fol- 

 lows : An incision is made through 

 the skin, about three eighths of an 

 inch long. Then the skin is sepa- 

 rated from the flesh with the finger, 

 or with the end of a blunt horn, as 

 far as the finger will easily reach. 

 Into this a piece of leather made 

 very thin, and round shaped, is in- 

 tr'oduced, about the size of a crown 

 i>iece, having a large roimd hole in 

 the middle of it. Previous to in- 

 troducing the leather, it is covered 



