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WHEAT AFTER CLOVER. 



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basis is the cultivable earth firm from not having 

 been lately disturbed. No such rules can be gene- 

 ral, but the case happens oftener than some are 

 willing to suppose. 



WHEAT AFTER CLOVER. 



Clover forms a very excellent preparation for 

 wheat, yielding ample crops of the golden grain 

 at a very light ex pence : so that, while the Nor- 

 folk husbandry of, 1. Turnips ; 2. Barley ; 3. Clo- 

 ver ; 4. Wheat ; is practicable on a farm, dry 

 enough for turnips, and rich enough for wheat, a 

 man may well enough be satisfied with his profit ; 

 but after many repetitions (and this system has 

 been common for above fifty years), it was found 

 that two evils gradually appeared, which were un- 

 known at the first introduction of it. Turnips de- 

 manded ample manuring where they were once 

 produced of larger size without any ; and the clo- 

 ver became so subjecl to failures, that it was no 

 longer easy to have it every fourth year. This 

 created the necessity of variations (of which more 

 in another place), but still retaining clover as the 

 preparation for wheat. The husbandry, ho\\ 

 was very imperfecl, from the mode of putting in 

 the wheat, which was merely by the harrow, in 

 which method (for the skim-coulter was unknown) 

 the seed was too apt to fall into the scams of the 

 furrows, and came up consequently among" what- 

 ever grass and weeds might be in the land. The 

 discovery of dibbling was a very capital improve- 

 ment : in this method the seed was deposited in 



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