152 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF chap, ril, 



number of years back, the introduction of pro- 

 per systems of cropping has been a serious ob- 

 ject of their attention. Accordingly, in many 

 places, where the land is rich, improvements 

 most advanced, and the occupants intelligent and 

 enterprizing, judicious rotations have been esta- 

 blished and followed with success. In a large 

 proportion of the county, however, improve- 

 ments may be considered as but just beginning, 

 and therefore the land merely in a state of pre- 

 paration and trial. Wherever this is the case, 

 neither rotations of the best kind, nor indeed 

 regular rotations of any kind, can as yet be ex- 

 pected. In the high, cold, and poor lands, no 

 rotation is observed, at least none that deserves 

 the name. 



From the different rotations to be met with in 

 this county, the following are selected, as being 

 practised by the best farmers and most generally 

 approved of. 



I. On strong moist and productive soils. 



1. Fallow with dung, or lime or i. Fallow dunged, &.c. 



and dung 



2. Wheat 2. Wheat 



3. Beans drilled or broad-cast 3. Pulse or clover (rows 



4. Barley with grass seeds 4. Barley with 2 or 3 fur- 



5. Hay 5. Oats, then fallow again. 



6. Oats, then fallow again 



2. On rick dry bottomed loams. 



1. Potatoes or drilled beans Or, if the farm has access to 



with dung plenty of town dung 



2. Barley with grass-seeds I. Fallow with dung 



3. Hay 2. Wheat 



4. Wheat 3. Barley 



5. Pulse 4. Clover 



6 . Oats . 5 . Wheat with a slight d unging 



6. Oats 



