66 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



%>zttitm xiii. 



FALLOWING EXPLODED. 



XT is a queftion with fome perfons, whether fum- 

 mer fallowing be necelfary or not ? I am one of 

 thofe who do not think it is. Nature does not: 

 feem to require any paufe or reft of this kind ; all 

 plants make their annual (hoots, as regularly as the 

 day fucceeds the night. The earth was evidently 

 defigned to yield a regular uninterrupted produce ; 

 and it does To, where we leave it to itfelf. If you 

 do not fow corn it will produce weeds : its pro- 

 ductive quality never ceafes. It is therefore our 

 bufinefs, by good culture, to expel the unprofi- 

 table plant, and introduce another, from which we 

 may derive benefit. The idea of leaving land to 

 reft is ridiculous ; keep it clean, and intermix the 

 crops fown upon it judicioufly, fo that one may 

 fertilize as much as another exhaufts (a) ; and it 

 may be fown as a garden is planted, from one ge- 

 neration to another (/;). Look at half the common 

 fields in England, where the fyftem eftablifhed by 

 the old fchool is called two crops and a fallow. 



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