FEBRUARY. 69 



enables the farmer to get two profitable crops in- 

 stead of one, with the land preserved at the same 

 time in good heart, and clean. 



1. Fallow, turnip, cabbage, winter tares, or 



potatoes ; 



2. Barley- 



3. Clover, &c. ; 



4. Beans; 

 .5. Wheat. 



Here is a much more profitable course than that 

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

 by taking barley or oats after the wheat. 



The cl.ivcr lay should he dunged before wheat 

 sowing, if the time should be too dry for that 

 operation, or after it, and then ploughed into such 

 stitches as suit the drill-plough or scarifiers, and 

 pl.mted in this month \vithont 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 wanting 

 in some courses. 



BEANS AFTER WHEAT. 



There are some rich soils, upon which the most 

 profitable husbandry that can be practised is, to 

 taXe beans and wheat alternately ; others on which 

 the same husbandry may be repented twice in five 

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

 Mich fields on a farm ; but wherever found, this mtt- 

 nagemeiit should not be neglected. In all cases the 

 land ought to be ploughed in autumn ; no spring 



F 3 plough i 



