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which grass-seeds should be sown ; 10 acres in oats, after these grasses ; 10 

 in beans in strong soils ; and 10 in wheat. 



269 Suffolk Report, p. 51. 



270 The same rotation answers on light gravelly soils. Derbyshire Report, 

 vol. ii. p. 104. 



271 It is the practice in Northumberland and the Lothians, to sow the winter 

 species of wheats, more especially on light, friable, and warm soils, as late as the 

 end of February, and even the beginning or middle of March, after turnips ; 

 but barley is sown after turnips consumed at a later period. 



272 The clover should be ploughed down before winter, and the oats sowed 

 on the stale furrow, after being scarified. The stubbles should be shimmed, ac- 

 cording to the Kentish practice, (see Chap. IV. Part I. Sect. 24), and the land 

 ploughed as early as the season will admit of it, after the crop has been harvest- 

 ed. 



273 Suffolk Report, p. 52, note. These protracted rotations, however, are 

 much condemned by Mr Middleton, as tending to promote weeds and exhaus- 

 tion. He is of opinion, that they occasion the necessity of fallow, and the er- 



L &** J roneous idea, that it is generally advisable. 



274 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 464-. The fallow, in this 

 f \ ease, is only once in eight years. 



275 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 526. 



276 It would be more consistent with the principles of the alternate husban- 

 dry, to take a crop of oats after grass, and then pease or beans. See Brown's 

 Rural Affairs, vol. ii. p. 74. 



*~ 4S5F Two crops in the same year, are not very uncommon near Edinburgh, 

 early potatoes and turnips, being taken in the same year. Turnips may also be 

 got after clover, especially when it has been cut for soiling. 



278 Middlesex Report, p. 165. In the southern parts of England, where the 

 barley can be got off the ground in July, transplanted Swedes might be put in 

 ground drilled to receive them, in the beginning of August, and the crop would 

 be nearly as forward, as if they had been raised from the seed in May. 



39$ Middlesex Report, p. 188. Mr Hutchins, and other farming gardeners 

 in Kensington and Fulham, raise a succession of cabbages, and then potatoes or 

 turnips the first year, and wheat the second year j and by repetition, they obtain 

 these three valuable crops every two years. 



&S&- The variety called *' The stone turnip," ought to be procured. A sandy 

 loam is the soil where they thrive best. They should be sown very thick, broad- 

 cast, as soon as the land can be got into good tilth. The success of the crop 

 principally depends upon the long continuance of mild and growing weather, in 

 October, November and December. Crops of stubble turnips near London have 

 produced L. 10 per acre, and upwards. See The Farmer's Journal, published 

 on the loth September 1819. 



* Hints on the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, p. 71. The second, 

 and in some cases, the preparatory crops in Flanders, are estimated at the fol- 

 lowing sums, in English money, per statute acre : 



Sterling Money. 



Carrots after flax, , .5 5 10 



Spurrey after wheat, 620 



Turnips after rye, 647 



Turnips after oats, 647 



Green corn, before flax, 2 10 



Green corn, before potatoes, per English acre, 2 10 O 



( Vanderstraeten's Improved Agriculture, p. 67). 



Sometimes a farmer procures three crops in one year. 1 . A crop of corn, to 

 be cut green ; 2. Flax, with which carrots are sown, or after the flax is pulled, 

 turnips, spurrey, or buck-wheat. If potatoes begin the course, they are preceded 

 by a crop of grain, to be eaten green. The corn must be sown in winter, and 



