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herbs grew on them, which offered food for animals, 

 and the roots of which, buried in the soil by the 

 plough, furnished a great part of tlie necessary ma- 

 nure. But at this day, when we have succeeded in 

 establishing the cultivation of a great variety of 

 roots and artificial grasses, the system of fallowing 

 can be no longer supported by the shadow of a good 

 reason. The ease with which fodder may be culti- 

 vated, furnishes the means of supporting an in- 

 creased number of animals ; these in their turn sup- 

 ply manure and labour ; and the farmer is no longer 

 under the necessity of allowing his lands to be fal- 

 low." Chaptal. 



" It is already acknowledged, that it is only upon 

 wet soils, or, in other words, upon lands unfit for the 

 turnip husbandry, that a plain summer fellow is ne 

 cessary." New Edinb. Encyc. 



" As there is only one good reason for fallowing, 

 namely, to destroy weeds ; and as this can be done 

 full as well by fallow crops, that is, by crops that 

 require frequent hoeing and cleaning during their 

 growth, no fallowing ought to be permitted in a good 

 system of agriculture." T. Cooper. 



We have quoted in the last number of the fourth 

 volume of the Cultivator, the practical example of 

 the late Chancellor Livingston, showing an increased 

 profit of nearly two hundred per cent, resulting 

 from substituting fallow crops for naked fallows, be- 

 sides an increase of cattle-food, upon one hundred 

 acres of arable land, of sixty-five tons, and the ma- 

 nure from sixty-five cattle which this extra food 

 would keep. In page 88 and 104 of the same vol- 

 ume we have given Greig and Beatson's systems of 

 managing clay farms, in which naked fallows are 

 dispensed with, and the profits doubled by substitu- 

 ting fallow crops. These evidences might be great- 

 ly multiplied were it necessary ; but we have so 

 many examples and illustrations in every quarter of 

 our country, that he who will may profit by liis own 



