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Norfolk, England, the turnip is the pivot of the four year rotation. 

 The five year rotation is less generally in use. 

 The Suifolk county rotation : 



1. Turnip. 



2. Earley. 



3. Beans. 



4. Wheat. 



5. Barley. 



6. Clover. 



7. Wheat. 



And a longer period of rotation is tried; for instance, Mr. 

 Dailly : 1st, lucerne; 2d, 3d and 4th, lucerne for soiling; 5th 

 year, plant lucerne; 6th, oats; 7th, potatoes; 8th, spring wheat; 

 9th, colza; 10th, winter wheat; 11th, winter beans and colza; 

 12th, oats; 13th, field poppy or roots; 14th, winter wheat; 15th, 

 roots; 16th, spring or winter wheat. 



Dr. Waterbury — In remarking the diseases incident to animals, 

 we cannot fail to recognize the close resemblance in many of them 

 to human diseases, and we must always make allowances for dif- 

 ference of climate, condition, and proximate causes. I will, if 

 desirable, say something on this subject, at some convenient day. 

 As to the rotation of crops, we must also say, that analagous cir- 

 cumstances must control that rotation in our country; as, for 

 instance, we must have place always and everywhere for our own 

 original American zea maize, Indian corn. Clover is an excellent 

 precursor of the cereals. On the large scale, a heavy crop of red 

 clover is always a good forerunner of Indian corn, wheat, &,c. 

 The real condition of soil is always indicated by the trees upon 

 it; and in some of our State lands the poorest invariably grows 

 hemlock, with peculiar satisfaction, but nothing else. 



STRAWBERRIES— A NEW SEEDLING. 

 Marcus L. Ward, of Newark, exhibited a very remarkable, 

 large, fine new seedling strawberry-plant in bearing, originated 

 by Mr. Seth Boyden of Irvington, N. J. Some of the berries are 

 four and a-half and five inches in circumference. Mr. Boyden is 

 well known as the inventor of some useful improvements in the 

 steam engine. He is now engaged in inventing new fruits. His 



