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you much better, with less labour, than middling crops 

 of corn, on the smallest holding-s, as weU as on the 

 largest. You can pursue a good system on the minutest 

 scale, although on a large one you can do so with the 

 greatest profit. — One fourth of your land you shoixld 

 have under potatoes, mangel wurzel, beans, or turnips 

 — one fourth, barley or oats — one fourth, clover, 

 vetches, or lucerne — and the remaining fourth, wheat, 

 if the soil be suited to it. I do riot allow you, onveiy 

 small holdiyigs, a single perch of pasture. Bring your 

 farms once into the above system, and they will ever 

 after be easily kept in order with httle extraoriHnary 

 cost. But you wiU cry out, and say, " the cow will not 

 give half her quantity of milk if confined in a house"' 

 — " pasture is the thing." I admit reacUly that a single 

 cow will yield more milk in mild weather when at 

 liberty on good pasture ; but the same quantity of 

 land will, under the green crop system, support a 

 much greater number of cows, and on the average of 

 the year, supply a much greater quantity of milk : 

 you will see this by considering that one acre of pas- 

 ture will scarcely feed a cow during the summer 

 tnontlis alone ; but if it be chiefly under green crops, 

 it supports her much better during the whole year, and 

 though she will give less milk during a part of the 

 year, she will give much more on the average of the 

 12 months. Divide the acre, if you have but one, 

 into four parts, thus : — 



Mangel Wurzel, or Turnips, Cabbages, and a. r. p. 



Garden Roots - - - - 1 



Barley - - - - - 1 



Clover - - - - - 1 



Wheat 10 



1 



The quarter of an acre of clover and mangel wurzel, 

 with the straw, and 1^ ton of bought hay will keep 

 up the cow for a year, and leave three or four barrels 



