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( = 33 8.10 bushels) of wheat: and 34 metzen ( = 40^ bushels) of rye, per yoke, 

 I had the following rotation : 



barley. 



( maize, gj vear ^ 



1st year, < potatoes, ^ ' ( 



( beans ; 



3d, clover ; 4th, winter wheat ; 



5th, winter rye ; and as an after-crop, turnips in the stubble. 

 Near by I had an equal nvmiber of yokes of dry, not very productive meadow, as 

 plough-land, and obtained in. leaves of the fruit-trees as much as half the product in 

 sti'aw. 



[ScHWERTz, in Vol. III. p. 150, gives also some estimates as to the production of 

 manure, according to ditlerent modes of culture. '• The first was where the field was 

 allowed every 2d year to lie fallow, and the other years were cultivated with grain. 

 The product in straw and manure w^as the following. The weight is in kilograms, 

 of which one kilogram = about 2^ lbs. 



8,375 16,207 



equal to 18 cartloads of manure. Therefore the product is equal to the need, 



*' On the system of a fallow, manured every 3d year with grain, 



Straw. 



12,000 22,700 



equal to 25.22 cartloads of manure. The farm needs 30 cartloads, for each fallow 

 year 18, therefore it fails short 1078. A similar farm of 100 hectares = 250 acres, 

 suffers, therefore, a loss of 179f , to cover which, an addition of 33 hectares of meadow 

 are required. 



"The same mode of husbandry, with fallow every 3d year, but with clover, gives 

 the following results : 



1 year, naked fallow, manured. 



Total, 



which is 34^ cartloads. There was needed in manure for the fallow, 18 cartloads, 



" " clover, 24 



42 

 The product in manure, . . 34^ 



Deficiency, , . . - '^i 



being 125 cartloads to 100 hectares, to cover which, there must be 23 hectares of un- 

 manured meadows. 



