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time which formerly followed each other in rotation, 

 but has carried to the highest degree of perfection 

 me principle of mixed cultivation, which begins 

 now to find favour with our European farmers 

 also : he has, in this respect, put an end to our 

 confused and haphazard way of mixing crops on 

 the same field, having, by the method of drill- 

 planting, introduced order and regularity into the 

 system. The following description of the Japanese 

 system may serve by way of illustration. 



We have a Japanese field before us, in the middle 

 of October, with nothing but buck- wheat upon it. 

 The buck- wheat is planted in rows 24 to 26 inches 

 apart ; the intervening, now vacant, space had 

 been sown in spring with small white turnip- 

 radishes which have already been gathered. 

 These intervening vacant spaces are now tilled 

 to the greatest depth attainable by the implement. 

 A portion of the fresh earth is raked with the 

 hoe from the middle up to the buck-wheat plants, 

 which are now in full flower : a furrow is thus 

 formed in the middle, in which rape or the grey 

 winter pea, is sown, the seed being manured in the 

 manner already described ; and seed and manure 

 are then covered with a layer of earth. By 

 the time the rape or the pea has grown one to 

 two inches high, the buck-wheat is ripe for cutting. 

 This done, a few days after the rows it occupied 



