348 JUNE. 



No farmer can entertain too high sentiments, of 

 the necessity of gaining crops of green winter food: 

 the importance of having sach food for his cattle, 

 and not depending totally on hay, is one of the 

 clearest axioms in the whole range of husbandry. 

 His profits will be amazingly lessened : his loss in 

 the want of manure felt severely for many years, 

 and on farms not abounding with hay, his expence 

 in buying it, or his loss in selling his cattle, will 

 be equally great. But, besides these accumulated 

 evils, there is another of a different nature, which 

 he should consider well : it is the change of his 

 course of crops. After either turnips or cabbages, he 

 sows spring corn, and with that spring corn, seeds. 

 On some soils, the grass is left but one year, in 

 others two, and in others, mixed with ray-grass, 

 &c. longer. The lay is ploughed up, and corn 

 at once harrowed in. This is compendious, cheap, 

 and yet excellent husbandry ; for the duration of 

 the grass is a constant fund of profit, at scarcely 

 any expence, and the preparation for corn is 

 carrying on in the most beneficial manner. But 

 if the turnips fail, and no cabbages planted, what 

 is the consequence ? Why, the farmer sows wheat 

 on the fallow, in hopes of a good crop, to pay 

 him for so much tillage as the land has received. 

 This introduction of that grain at once breaks the 

 whole arrangement of his farm, and he is forced 

 either to begin again, or to pursue that pernicious 

 husbandry of sowing two crops of white corn run- 

 ning. He must either fallow for turnips again, or 



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