66 BEANS AFTER \VKEAT. [FEB. 



stead of one, with the land preserved at the same 

 time in good heart, and clean. 



1. Fallow, turnip, cabbage, winter tare?, or 

 pol 



2. Barley ; 



3. Clover, &c. ; 



4. Beans ; 



5. Wheat. 



Here is a much more profitable course than 

 of four years ending with wheat ; or of live years, 

 by taking barley or oats after the wheat. 



The clover lay should be dunged before wheat 

 sowing, if the lime should be too dry for that 

 operation, or after it, and then ploughed into such 

 stitches as suit the drill -plough or scarifiers, and 

 planted in this month without more ploughing. 

 This is an excellent system, that cannot be too 

 much commended. The layer affords a good op- 

 portunity for carting the manure, which is wantin 

 in some com 



BEANS AFTEIl WKKAT. 



There are some rich soils, upon which the most 

 profitable husbandry that can be practised is, to 

 take beans and wheat alternately ; others on which 

 the same husbandry may be repeated twice in five 

 years, or thrice in seven. There may be one or more 

 such fields on a farm ; but wherever found, tin 

 man;] ^cmeiit should not be ncglerlcd. In all c:i 

 the laud ought to be ploughed in autumn ; n 

 spring ploughing to be given ; and the stitches drilled 



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