406 On Grass Land. 



if the land has not been pared and burnt, the first crop 

 ought to be either oats, or dibbled beans. To do justice to 

 the plan of restoring the land to grass, there ought to be, in 

 all cases, according to the soil, either a naked, oca turnip 

 fallow, before the sowing of grass-seeds be attempted. 



But on mellow, loamy clay-land, consisting of fine old 

 grass pasture, where it is thought necessary or advisable to 

 break up such land, it should be done in detached pieces, 

 so as to suit the convenience of the occupier, and the following 

 course should be adopted : 1. Autumnal ploughing for oats 

 in spring ; 2. Fallow for rape, to be eaten with sheep ; 3. 

 Beans; 4. Wheat sown with clover; 5. Clover combined 

 with some of the native grasses ; 6. Pasture ; 7. Wheat ; 

 8. Rape to be partially eaten, and hoed in spring, and to 

 stand for seed ; and 9. Wheat with grass seeds. This is 

 a very profitable rotation, and applicable to the best gra- 

 zing land in Lincolnshire (3?$. 



Chalk. Paring and burning is considered in this case to 

 be indispensable, as a preparation for turnips, which ought, 

 where manure can be got, to be raised two years in succes- 

 sion : then barley, clover, wheat ; and after one or two 

 additional crops of turnips, the land may be laid down with 

 sainfoin to great advantage. 



Peat. On this soil, paring and burning is likewise neces- 

 sary. Under a judicious system, the greatest and quickest 

 profit is thus secured to the farmer, with advantage to the 

 public, and without injury to the landlord. Draining also, 

 must not be neglected. The crops to be grown on peat 

 soils, are, 1. Rape, or potatoes ; 2. Oats ; 3. Turnips ; 4. 

 Oats or wheat, and, 5. Clover, or grass-seeds. A proper 

 application of lime, where it can be obtained ( 3 ^), is of the 

 greatest service, in enabling such soils to bring corn to its 

 full perfection. 



In the fens of Thorney, &c. the following course was re- 

 commended by the late Mr Wing : 1. Paring and burning 

 for rape ; 2. Oats ; and 3. Wheat with grass-seeds ; if the 

 land was safe from water, the Lammas sort, if not, spring- 

 wheat. This short course, he contended, preserved the land 

 in heart; and it afterwards produced abundant crops of 

 grass. But long courses, in such a soil, run the land to 

 weeds andstraw, with a diminution of quality in the grain ( 3 ^>). 



Loam. The courses of crops applicable to this soil, are 

 too numerous to be here inserted. If the sward be friable, 

 the following rotation may be adopted : I. Oats ; 2. Tur- 

 nips; 3. Wheat, or barley; 4. Beans: 5. Wheat; 6. Fal- 



