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The foil is different ; in fome fields a 

 ftrong clay, and in others a good hazel 

 loam, that is excellent for turnips and bar- 

 ley. His courfes of crops are, 



i. Turnips 4. Wheat 



2. Barley 5. Oats 



3. Clover 



This laft crop of oats ought never to be 

 fufFered. 



1. Fallow 2. Wheat 



2. Wheat 3. Beans 



3. Oats 4. Wheat 

 And 1. Fallow 



The beans in the laft courfe ought either 

 to be thoroughly horfe and hand-hoed, 

 or not fucceeded by wheat; for no land 

 can throw out three good crops upon the 

 credit of one fallow, unlefs fome of them 

 are fallow crops. 



He ploughs three or four times for 

 wheat, fows 10 pecks, and reaps at a me- 

 dium 18 bufhels. For barley, after tur- 

 nips, he gives but one earth, but if on a 

 fallow, three or four ; fows four bufhels, 

 and gains at an average four quarters. 

 For oats he ftirs but once, fows five 

 bufhels, and reckons five quarters his mean 

 produce. The tillage he gives his beans 

 confifts only in one earth, which, confi- 

 dering them as a preparation for wheat, is 

 by no means good hufbandry. He fows 



four 



