?>C> FALLOWING. 



suitable. Good crops of flax may also be raised in such 

 soils ; and the}^ are suitable for winter-wheat, where 

 they are sufficiently dry to enable that crop to withstand 

 frosts. ^\itli the third crop i>rass-seeds should common- 

 ly be sown, which should be those of timothy or some 

 other kind calculated to withstand frosts. Clover, will 

 do if the ground is sufficiently dry for wheat. When the 

 grasses begin to fail, break up the ground. Oats, on 

 the sward, if properly turned over will do for the first 

 crop. 



Dark dry loams, are well calculated for an extensive 

 rotation of crops, which may be similar to those men- 

 tioned for a dry-loam. They are not generally so good 

 for wheat as stiiTer soils; nor for turnips as sandy ones. 



Gravelly soils, are generally best adapted to crops of 

 rye and red-clover, aiternately; and with gypsum and 

 deep ploughing will bear tolerably good crops of each. 

 In this way good crops of buckwheat may be had from 

 such soils, which are naturally very poor ; and this in- 

 stead of rye, may be the intermediate crop between 

 those of clover, from which the most profit is to be ex- 

 pected. Sainfoin will also answer for hard gravels. On 

 tine gravels approaching to the nature of gravelly loam, 

 crops of potntoes, Indian corn, and even wheat may be 

 had, in rotation, beside clover, with suitable manures, 



"Gravelly loam, with the aid of gypsum and other suit- 

 able manures is properly calculated for a rotation, say, 

 first of potatoes, then Indian corn, followed by wheat in 

 the fall, after the corn has been cut up ; or, barley in 

 the srjring, and thv^n clover. Some of the mellower and 

 richer Sorts of this soil niay answer well for turnips, 

 carrotts, and other roots, and for almost all kinds of 

 crops suitable for dry upland soils. 



Clayey soils, if sufficiently dry, with a proportion of 

 calcareous or silicious earth mixed with them, mav be 

 well suited for rotations of such culmiferous and legu- 

 minous crops as may be found most advantageous ; and 

 also for some of the root crops. The rotation may be 

 similar to that for dry loams, substituting the potatoe 

 for the turnip crop. If the soil be a stiff dry cla}^, the 

 first crop may be oats,* well harrowed in on the sward. 



The tendency of the oat is to pulverise the soil by the expan- 

 sion of its roots whii£ growing, perhaps more than any ether 

 fxrain. 



