MARCH. 



sick of it. After harvest he has a fine plant, but by 

 March or April, half, or perhaps more of it, is dead. 

 This makes a new coarse of crops necessary. In- 

 stead of its occurring once in four years, as in the 

 common Norfolk course, it becomes necessary to 

 sow it only in the second round alternately, beans 

 after barley in one course, and then clover in the 

 next. This'has been found to answer. The obser- 

 vation, however, should be made not without re- 

 marking', that on a farm at Morden, in Surrey, Mr. 

 Arbuthnot, by means of deeper ploughing than com- 

 mon, and ample manuring, succeeded well with clo- 

 ver every tjiird year in this course: 



J. Beans, 



2. Wheat, 



3. Clover,, 



on land that was said to be sick of it, though sown 

 before only once in four years. I viewed his crops 

 in that new course during three rounds, and never 

 saw finer. 



Ten to twelve pounds an acre is the usual quan- 

 tity of seed, but fifteen are better. 



TREFOIL. 



Upon light and poor sandy lands, on which 

 clover does not succeed well, it is common hus- 

 bandry to sow trefoil, with a portion of white 

 clover and ray-grass, with intention of leaving it 

 two years. Six pound of trefoil, four of white 

 clover, and half a bushel of ray. are common quan- 

 tities. These are for sheep-feed. 



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