OF FALLOWING. 



usually be calculated on, previous to that period of the year, 

 to clean the land in such a way, as to supersede the neces- 

 sity of a summer- fallow. 



To cultivate beans for winter fodder, would be procuring 

 that article at a great expence indeed. They could never, 

 to whatever purpose they might be applied, indemnify the 

 farmer for the expence of working the land, and sowing a 

 crop, which requires to be seeded at the rate of six firlots 

 per acre when sown in drills. No abatement in that quan- 

 tity of seed could be made, for if the crop is to be cut early 

 for fodder, thick sowing would become the more necessary 

 to hurry it on, so as to enable the farmer to cut it down, 

 before the period of the regular corn harvest takes place. 

 The best rotation for a clay soil, Mr Cuthbertson considers 

 to be, 1 . Fallow ; 2. Wheat ; 3. Clover and rye-grass for 

 hay; 4-. Oats; 5. Beans, or yams with dung; 6. Wheat, 

 and then to return to fallow : a full crop of rye-grass and 

 broad clover, either for soiling or hay, would go much far- 

 ther in feeding horses or cattle, than any of the green crops 

 that can be raised on a clay soil : Clover and rye-grass is 

 always a sure crop upon such a soil, when the land has 

 been previously prepared by a well-managed summer-fal- 

 low, and the sowing and labour are not nearly so expen- 

 sive. 



Mr Shirreff states, that a greater quantity of straw, and 

 consequently of putrescent manure, will be obtained in six 

 years, with a fallow year, than in seven with no fallow, 

 owijig to the superior state of fertility in which the land is 

 put, by the operations of the fallow year. 



Mr Somner of Gilchriston maintains, that fallowing clay 

 land, places it, not in an unproductive state, but quite the 

 reverse. When land of that description is properly fallow- 

 ed, it will produce, under a rotation of six crops, one-fourth 

 more of corn, straw, or grass, with the same quantity of 



