210 AGRICULTURE 



1. Bare fallow. 



2. Wheat. 



3. Beans. 



4. Wheat. 



5. Turnips. 



6. Barley. 



7. Seeds hay. 



8. Oats. 



Here, as under the Norfolk four-course shift, 

 one-half of the farm is annually under a 

 cereal crop, and one-fourth under a legu- 

 minous crop, assuming that the seeds hay is 

 principally red clover. On the other hand, 

 only one-eighth of the farm is under turnips, 

 this crop being rather uncertain and difficult 

 to grow on the strongest classes of land. 



On a strong-land farm where dairying is 

 practised, and where, consequently, every 

 effort must be made to secure a root crop, 

 turnips or swedes are frequently grown after 

 bare fallow, a system that permits of the 

 production of the finest tilth that can be 

 secured. Dung having been spread in the 

 drills in autumn, the land is ridged up and 

 left lying fully exposed to the frosts of 

 winter, and in the month of May, after 

 artificial manures have been sowed broadcast 

 aver the ground, the ridging plough is run 



