88 FALLOWING. 



wurtzel may be had from an acre, and worth, at 18 cents, 

 ^100 per acre. And these roots are suitable for almost 

 all the |)urposes of grain for live slock. As grain crops 

 are nfa'iy as expensive as roots, the clear profit will be 

 irom ^oO to ^50 per acre less than roots. 



The following six years' rotation recommended by a 

 writer in the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, 

 may be a good one for farmers in general in New-Eng- 

 land. 



1st year. After breaking up the sward is oats sown, 

 thick, to be cut for fodder. 



2 I year. Potatoes or Indian corn, or both. 



3d year. Ruta-baga. 



4th year. Barley or wheat, sown with clover and 

 herds'-grass, or red top. 



5th year. Clover mowed. 



6th year. Herds'-grass and clover. 



In the autumn of the sixth year, the land to be brok- 

 en up, and on the seventh year the same rotation re- 

 commenced. 



It is difficult to designate particularly the most suita- 

 ble changes of crops ; as they are more exactly to be 

 ascertained by the known product of lands, when pro- 

 perly cultivated. But such crops, in rotation, as are 

 found to 3 ield most clear profit, and are at the same 

 time best suited to follow each other, should usually be 

 cultivated, after making due allowance for the greater 

 exhaustion of the soil, occasioned by the growing of 

 some more than others. 



IN^DIAN CORN. 



This plant may justly be considered the most valua- 

 ble in the whole circle of American husbandry. It is 

 food for most animals, and yields a great increase of 

 grain. It is not so liable to injury as other grain?. As 

 food to man it is remarkably wholesome and nourishing, 

 and admits of the greatest variety in its preparations. 

 In cultivating it the soil is cleaned and lightened, prepa- 

 rative to other crops: though it is inferior to prepara- 

 tions with au".i{iorating crops giving more shade and 

 moisture. 



The proper soils for this grain are the sandy, sandy 

 loam, gravelly-loam, and rich red, or dark-coloured 



