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But excellent as this fucceffion of crops un- 

 doubtedly is, it cannot be invariably kept up j 

 for even a Norfolk hufbandman cannot com- 

 mand a crop of turneps or a crop of clover; 

 and when either of thefe fail, the regularity of 

 the fuccefiion is of courfe broken into. 



If his turneps difappoint him, he either lets 

 his land lie fallow through the winter, and 

 fows it with barley, in courfe, in the fpring ; 

 or, more frequently, though lefs judicioufly, 

 fows it with wheat in autumn ; fometimcs, 

 though not always, fovving it with clover and 

 rye-grafs in the fpring; by this means regain- 

 ing his regular courfe. 



If the clover mifs, the remedy is more dif- 

 ficult; and no general rule is in this cafe ob- 

 ferved. Sometimes a crop of peas is taken the 

 firfl: year j and the next, buck plowed under : 

 or perhaps a crop of oats are taken the firft 

 year, and over thefe clover fown for the fecond : 

 in either of thefe cafes, the foil comes round for 

 wheat the third year, in due fucceffion. 



ous Hufbandman in the northern part of the Diftrift (Mr. 

 Edmund Bird, of Plumftead) ; who divides his farm into 

 feven, inflead of fix, fliifts ; his courfe of crops are the 

 fame as thofe of his neighbours ; his feventh fluft being 

 a U'hole-yc:jr'sy«//<?at' for wheat. 



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