CROPPING SYSTEMS 



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Before the rearrangement was made, the fields were as 

 follows : 



FIELD 



AREA AND CROP 



12 oats not seeded with grass 



6 clover 

 30 hay 



9 hay 

 12 hay 

 10 corn 



9 wheat seeded to grass 



5 hay 

 12 hay 



The total area is 105 acres. This would make five 

 areas of exactly 21 acres. Field 1, and 3 acres of 6, 

 made one of the new fields. The balance of 6 and 5 

 made another. Number 2 made one. The balance of 

 2 and 7 made one ; 3 and 4 made one new field. 



The land had formerly been farmed as 9 separate 

 fields. The new arrangement leaves the number of 



