32 CULTURE OF FARM CROPS. 



where tins plan is adopted, the following is the rota- 

 tion : 



First Year, Fallow for turnips. I Third Year, Beans or pease. 

 Second Year, Wheat. | Fourth Year, Wheat. 



The next round being 



Fifth Year, Fallow for Swedes. I Seventh Year, Clover. 

 Sixth Year, Barley. | Eighth Year, Wheat. 



16. Wheat on clay soils is often sown after beans; the 

 dung is applied to the beans, and the crop well hoed, so 

 that the land is clean for the wheat hence the advantage 

 of sowing the beans in drills. This plan of dunging the 

 land for the beans is better than dunging the land directly 

 for the wheat, which practice often is a cause of blight. 

 By having an intermediate crop of beans the blight is 

 likely to be prevented, and a better crop, both of beans and 

 wheat, secured. "Where farm-yard dung is scarce, and 

 cannot be applied to the beans, rape-cake, at the rate of 8 

 to 10 bushels per acre, may be drilled in at the sowing of 

 the wheat. On the heavy clay lands of Norfolk and Suf- 

 folk the wheat follows either clover or beans and pease, 

 barley being the crop immediately succeeding the fallow, 

 so that the rotation stands thus : 



First year, Fallow. 



Second Year, Barley. 



Third Year, Half clover, half beans or pease. 



Fourth Year, Wheat. 



1 7. The best farmers apply dung to the pulse, carefully 

 hoeing the crop. The wheat is drilled after the beans, al- 

 though by some it is dibbled after the clover. The clover 

 layers are manured heavily with, farm-yard dung, either on 

 the young plants during winter, or a short time previously 

 to turning over the land for wheat; the wheat comes 

 kindlier, and the clover plants are benefited by the plan of 

 dunging the clover in winter. It may certainly be ob- 

 jected to this system that the manure is exposed all the 

 winter to the atmosphere, and that much of its fertilizing 

 properties may be wasted ; on the other hand, it may be 



