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SECTION IV. 



CROPS. 



J\.S the general rotation of crops through this county, and 

 the refult of that management is accurately detailed at the end 

 of each diftridl, it only remains neceffary to ftate, in this 

 place, fuch obfervations as may probably lead to fome im- 

 provements therein. 



The fyflem of fingle crop and fallow, is by many people 

 much extolled for its fuperiority, as a proper, and complete 

 routine of heavy land hufbandry ; complete it certainly is, and 

 would be proper alfo, were it not polTible to preferve the 

 land in much higher condition, and at the fame time to 



render it more produ6live in valuable crops. 



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The plants which are defigned to be generally recom- 

 mended, as intertnediate crops between thofe of wheat, 

 oats and barley, are peas, beans, tares and clover; the 

 three firft, from their drawing or requiring but little nourifh- 

 ment from the earth ; the laft, from its being well known 

 as the beft polTible preparative for a crop of wheat. To 

 thefe may be added, upon the drieft land, the occafional 

 culture of potatoes, cole or rapefeed, for fpring food ; and 

 cabbages, though the expenditure of manure and labour, 

 neceffarily required in bringing to perfe6lion the laft named 

 crop, muft ever prove a bar to its general cultivation, and in 

 the hufbandry of England, confine the culture locally, and 

 to a very narrow fcale. 



In adapting the leguminous, as well as the farinaceous or 

 white draw crops, to the foils beft fuited to their nature,. 



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