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or even four years> seldom recruit its vigor sufficiently to produce 

 even a moderate crop of oats, which, if followed by a second of 

 the same grain, would scarce return the seed. Feed during the 

 two last years of rest, not worth more than nine shillings per acre. 

 No turnips for want of dung : ho fold because the land is too much 

 impoverished to maintain it ; straw carried off, and clover hay 

 only partially consumed on the premises by reason of the exposed 

 situation. In this unproductive state, the land must remain during 

 the last nine years of the term, reduced to the value of eight or tea 

 shillings per acre, and without the least prospect of melioration. 



Painful and disgusting as this representation must be to every ju- 

 dicious farmer, it is nevertheless strictly conformable to fact ; and 

 many instances might be adduced, to establish its veracity in every 

 point. Such has been, and most probably ever will be, the situa- 

 tion of Mendip inclosures, without buildings, and more judicious 

 course of crops. With buildings, we have to contemplate effects di- 

 rectly opposite, under a similar term of twenty-one years. Lime, 

 in the proportion of twenty quarters per acre will sustain the land 

 with little abatement of its fertility, for the first six or seven years. 

 During this period, Barton manure will be plentifully supplied, 

 and may be devoted to turnips, cabbage, and potatoes, on a consi- 

 derable scale, as it will not be wanted either for corn or clover for 

 several succeeding years ; it may be appropriated to turnips and 

 clover, assisted by the fold, which a feed of clover and ray grass 

 of the second year will sufficiently maintain. Should these re- 

 sources be thought inadequate to support the whole of the land, 

 from the ninth or tenth year, piece after piece in succession might be 

 broken up, and limed afresh, with an effect, very little, if at all 

 inferior to that of its first application ; as dung and the fold are 

 found excellent preparatives for the repetition of this manure. By 

 the alternate use of lime, dung, and the fold, together with the 

 following rotation of crops. 



ist Year . Oats on the Lay 4th Year , Artificial Grass 



2d ... . Winter and Spring Vetches Seeds mowed 



folded off, and turnips 5th. . . . Ditto Fed 

 3d ... . Oats and Artificial 6th ... . Ditto Ditto 



Grass Seeds, 



which 



