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1. Wheat, and perhaps part oats, well limed and 



dunged. 



2. Pease or beans, or a mixture of both. 



3. Barley, with grass-seeds. 



4. and 5. generally hay, 



6. 7. 8. and, sometimes, 9. pasture. 



to. Oats, and then return to summer-fallow. 



But experienced farmers, rinding that land of 

 this kind, and under this management, does not 

 require fallowing so soon again, substitute flax 

 in place of the fallow at the beginning of the 

 next course. This is generally a rich and pro- 

 fitable crop, attended with this peculiar advan- 

 tage, that, being separated from the ground ear- 

 ly in the month of August, sufficient time is al- 

 lowed for giving the land a complete dressing for 

 the ensuing crop of wheat. The wheat is suc- 

 ceeded by pulse, and the rotation goes on as be- 

 fore. On many farms in the county, consisting 

 of this kind of soil, the course just now men- 

 tioned has been followed without the smallest 

 perceptible infeilority in the aftercrops, from the 

 effects either of the wheat or of the flax : a proof 

 that the culture of flax is not so ruinous to land 

 as it has been sometimes represented. 



As Pife is a grazing as well as a corn county, 

 and as the black cattle bred in it are in high es- 

 timation, both for the dairy and for the sham- 

 bles, the course last mentioned, or something si- 

 milar, that shall combine both tillage and pas- 

 ture, would be highly eligible. It will be said, 

 perhaps, that no rotation of this kind can be de- 

 vised that will be universally applicable ; be- 

 cause there are some kinds of soil that will noc 



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