county, and in some parts of it I have seen some as bad 

 farming as 1 ever saw. I think it would be difficult to 

 find in any part of the kingdom, for ten miles together, 

 much belter arable land than there is on both sides 

 of the road from Northampton to Wellingborough. Some 

 parts of it are very well cultivated, other parts might be 

 better managed. It is not keeping to a. good course of 

 cropping that will make good farming. The farmer's best 

 exertions, thought, and forethought, are requisite to insure 

 that all the labour bestowed on the farm is done in the way 

 the most likely to turn to the best account. The master's 

 eye is continually necessary ; there are but few even of the 

 best labourers that do not need direction as to the manner 

 in which the work they are about is to be done. Boys 

 from 12 to 16 years of age, at wages from one-fifth to one- 

 third of men's, may be profitably employed, if the master 

 will take the trouble of looking sharply after them. It is a 

 stipulation with all Mr. Coke's tenants, that they are never 

 to have two white grain crops in succession. On some 

 parts of some of the best farms, it would perhaps do 

 no injury; still, however, it is quite necessary to have 

 one general rule laid down for the whole of Mr. Coke's 

 numerous tenantry. The object in view in having two 

 crops of white grain in succession, no doubt is profit. 

 Now in my farming calculations near the end of the book, 

 and which I flatter myself are pretty correct, I make it 

 appear that the four-course system will produce one-fourth 

 more profit than the six-course. A six-course system may 

 be arranged by having one field in its turn cultivated in this 

 way. Immediately after harvest, dung a part of the 

 stubble, and sow rye ; (one bushel will be sufficient for 

 spring fodder for four cart horses) : half of it for the first 

 spring cutting, the other half with vetches for the second 

 cutting : the rye and vetches together are better for the 

 horses than the vetches are by themselve* when cut before 

 they are in flower, and are so very oulent ; besides 

 which the rye holds the vetches up i; .i't growth : then 

 sow as many vetches as may be wanted for green food for 

 horses, or to be eaten off by sheep in the spring, or to stand 

 for seed sowing as the rye and vetches are mowed or eaten 

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