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i beneficial crop for sheep late in the sprang : in 

 11 probability (unless on very light, sandy, or 

 ime-stone soils), of greater value than the turnips, 

 ad they succeeded. 



No fanner can entertain too high sentiments of 

 e necessity of gaining crops of green winter food : 

 e importance of having such food for his cattle, 

 nd not depending totally on hay, is one of the 

 earest axioms in the whole range of husbandry. 

 lis profits will be amazingly lessened : his loss in 

 e want of manure felt severely for many years, 

 d on farms not abounding with hay, his expence 

 i buying it, or his loss in selling his cattle, will 

 equally great. But, besides these accumulated 

 nls, there is another of a different nature, which 

 should consider well : it is the change of his 

 urse of crops. After either turnips or cabbages, he 

 ws spring corn, and with that spring corn clover, 

 n some soils, the grass is left but one year, in 

 hers two, and in others, mixed with ray-grass, 

 c. longer. The lay is ploughed up, and wheat 

 once harrowed in. This is compendious, cheap, 

 d yet excellent husbandry ; for the duration of 

 e grass is a constant fund of profit, at scarcely 

 y expence, and the preparation for corn is 

 rying on in the most beneficial manner. But, 

 the turnips fail, and no cabbages planted, 

 at is the consequence ? Why, the farmer sows 

 eat on the fallow, in hopes of a good crop, to 

 y him for so much tillage as the land has re- 

 ived. This introduction of that grain at once 



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