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Although the increase of Wheat is greater than 

 that of Rye, vet, as it absorbs all the manure of the 

 farm, and requires the land to be ploughed twice 

 more, it is now deemed to be the least profitable of 

 the two crops by many of the farmers. 



As the Rye receives the full benefit of the fallow, 

 its increase is greater than that of the spring crops 

 which follow it. 



Barley and Oats are sown in the spring whicli 

 follows the harvesting the Wheat and Rye, and these 

 complete the course, which is again followed by a 

 whole year's fallow. By this rotation of crops, the 

 land bears Corn only two years out of every three ; 

 and the crop of the last year scarcely produces three 

 times the quantity of the seed that was sown. 



This opinion, formed by my own observations, 

 strengthened by the reports of the most intelligent 

 persons with whom I conversed, who were connected 

 with practical agriculture, receives some confirmation 

 from a Paper furnished to me by Mr. Leutze, His 

 Majesty's consul at Stettin ; according to which, in 

 1805, the year previous to that in winch the country 

 was over-run by the French, the quantities of Corn 

 sowed and harvested in the province of Pomerania, 

 when the Swedish part was not incorporated with 

 it, are as follow 



This view of the low rate of increase is further 

 confirmed by the Official Accounts of the produce of 

 several farms in West Prussia (see Appendix, No. 11, 

 B.) by which it appears, that on six farms, on which 

 4,864 acres are cultivated with Corn, the produce 

 was only taken at 10,000 quarters in 1824, which is 

 represented to be a favourable year. 



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