322 Mr. William Pitt on the Production and 



calculation, would consist of 216 acres, and state a course of crops and manage- 

 ' ment for the whole. 



Acres. 

 75 Of the lightest land, in 5 lots of 15 acres each, and the course, t. wheat; 

 2. cabbages and Swedish turnips, for carting off; 3. common turnips, to be 



, eaten on the ground by sheep ; 4. barley, with clover seed sown. If the 

 clover should be, in whole or in part, unpromising, such whole or part to be 

 ploughed up immediately after harvest, and sown with winter vetches, for 

 carting off to the stables, or tying stock, or both, as may suit the land. 



The common turnips to be eaten off in time, so as to allow two plough- 

 ings for the barley crop ; the cabbages and Swedish turnips may continue 

 longer; it will be sufficient if they are cleared off by the end of the spring seed 

 time, when the working of the ground for turnips must commence, and clover, 

 vetches, or grass will be ready for the support of live stock in succession. 



The manuring will be with farm-yard dung for the cabbages, &c. and if 

 any other manure is applied in the course it should be extraneous, as lime for 

 the turnips or barley, soot or other top-dressirvgs for the whaet or clover, 

 according to circumstances. 

 54 Of stronger land, in 6 lots of 9 acres each ; the course, 1. a fallow crop ma- 

 nured, as potatoes; or, if suitable, carrots, or other vegetables that can be 

 cleared off at Michaelmas; or, if judged necessary, a portion not exceeding 

 one third of the whole may be left each round of tillage as proof spots, and for 

 experiment as a complete fallow; this, by varying each spot alternately, each 

 round might be so ordered as to give a complete fallow to the whole in three 

 rounds of tillage, or once in 1 8 years ; but this may be done, or not, at pleasure. 

 The second year of the course will be wheat; the third I suppose.beans or 

 pease, set or sown in rows and well hoed ; the fourth cabbages, manured for ; 

 the fifth oats or barley, and the sixth clover; or if that fails, which may be 

 seen in due time, the stubble to be ploughed up and sown with winter vetches. 



7 For buildings, garden, yards, orchards, small grass paddocks near home, and 

 for miscellaneous and experimental purposes. The seeds of common and 

 Swedish turnips, and cabbages, should be saved by the judicious fanner, 



136 Carried forward. 



