OF FALLOWING. 



crop after the fallow wheat, will be easily cleaned, and if 

 the soil be good, the beans or green crop may be followed 

 with another crop of wheat, at least in part. On a dry 

 loamy soil, a great deal, no doubt, may be done without 

 summer-fallow, by preparing for the wheat crop with beans, 

 potatoes, turnips, &c. ; because on this soil, you can, in ge- 

 neral, depend on having these crops sufficiently cleaned, 

 and taken from theground in a proper time for sowing wheat, 

 though in such cases, much must depend upon the season. 

 Mr Spears long ago endeavoured to do away the necessity 

 of fallow, by sowing the whole of his wheat after beans and 

 other green crops; but as his farm consisted of a heavy loam 

 mixed with clay, and upon a retentive bottom, he could 

 neither depend on getting his wheat sown in proper time, 

 nor the land kept in good order. In fact, had he perseve- 

 red in that system, notwithstanding a great command of 

 manure from his distilleries, he should have failed in raising 

 the quantity of wheat for which his farm was adapted, 

 whilst the soil would have gone quite foul, in spite of every 

 exertion to prevent it, which is uniformly said to be the case, 

 in every instance, where the process of summer-fallowing, 

 on clay soils, has been neglected. 



Mr Rennie of Oxwell Mains, observes, that it is next to 

 impossible to clean land so well with green crops, but that 

 there may remain a great many root-weeds, so very preju- 

 dicial to the soil. The proper time for doing this effectu- 

 ally, is in July or August, and it must be accompanied with 

 deep ploughing, which can never be performed if the land 

 is under a crop. 



Another intelligent correspondent remarks, that wheat 

 sown after fallow, stands a better chance of escaping the 

 effects of the mildew, in consequence of the crop being 

 brought, earlier in the season, to that state of maturity, 

 which renders it unassailable by that destructive disease. 



