172 FALLOW CROPS AND 



Mowing clover, paid by the sec- 

 ond crop, . . . 

 Rent, $4 50, or 50 cents a year, 10 



£6 15 



To balance of profit, per acre, in 5 years, 



or on 5 acres in 1 year, . . £14 8 6 



" Thus while one farmer makes ^£1 3s. 5d. a year per 

 acre, upon his hundred acres, clear of expense, the other 

 makes £2 17s. 6d. ; the one gets little better than one 

 hundred, the other gets three hundred a year. In the 

 above statement I have given one farmer credit for two 

 bushels of wheat more than the other, since I am per- 

 suaded the vetch crop will improve the ground more than 

 the difference, as the dung given to the corn will not be 

 exhausted by this so much as by the oat crop, before the 

 wheat is sown. To this profit should also be added the 

 continued improvement of the crop by the one mode of 

 husbandry, and the continued decrease by the exhausting 

 the land in the other. 



" The fallow farmer has no fodder which the rotative 

 farmer does not possess, except the straw of his oats, 

 which we will value at half a ton of hay per acre. He 

 then has from his oats, on 20 acres, ten tons. 



The fallow farmer has, from 20 acres vetches, 25 tons. 

 From 40 acres of clover, . . . 50 " 



75 

 Deduct the oat straw, ... 25 



Superiority of fallow-crop farmer, . 50 tons. 



" He can thus winter, at one ton a head, 65 head of 

 cattle more than the fallowing farmer ; and as each of 

 these will afford at least six loads of dung, he will be 

 able to carry out 390 loads of dung more than the fallow- 

 ing farmer, besides that he has one exhausting crop less. 

 It will be easy to see what difference this must make in 

 a few years in the produce of a farm, and how much more 

 it would be than I have rated it at. We often ask with 

 astonishment, how the British farmer can afford to pay a 



