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notice that some advanced agriculturists are advocating the 

 importance of bringing the pea crop more regularly into 

 the rotation of the farm than it now is. One authority 

 has stated that he has always had the heaviest crop of 

 barley and the cleanest land which followed pease, top- 

 dressed with 2 or 3 cwt. of guano ; while, on the other 

 hand, he found the turnips which were made to succeed 

 pease lighter than when taken after two years' grass. At 

 a time when so much is being said about the clover plant 

 and its sickness, it will be worthy to note here what a 

 practical man has stated the result of his experience to be 

 in the growing of pease followed by clover. He states that 

 in a field one-half was sown with pease, the other with 

 clover ; the whole field was then laid with clover, and the 

 half which had been previously under it was bare, not a 

 head of clover being seen, while the half which had been 

 with pease had a remarkably fine crop of clover. The 

 same authority states that the course of cropping he has 

 adopted where pease or beans came in, is to have turnips 

 and barley or seeds followed by oats, and then the beans 

 or the pease. 



69. "When taken on the wheat or the barley stubbles, 

 the land should be deeply ploughed as early as possible, 

 and left to stand all winter. In spring a second plough- 

 ing may be given, but a scarifying or grubbing will in 

 many cases suffice. The surface is then well harrowed, 

 and the seed put in. If farmyard dung is applied, it is 

 spread over the surface, and then ploughed in. Lime, or 

 superphosphate of lime, 2^ or 3 cwt. to the acre, will fre- 

 quently be mixed with the manure with great advantage. 

 Where they are both used, Professor Wilson recommends 

 that the lime should be ploughed in with the winter fur- 

 row, and the farmyard dung spread over the surface in 

 spring previous to sowing, the dung being well rotted. 

 He says, however, and we decidedly agree with him, that 

 it would be better still to reverse the operation as above 

 described, ploughing in the dung in the winter furrow, and 

 applying the lirne or the superphosphate in the spring. 



