198 COURSE OF CROPS. 



lowed by wheat, and then in the four-shift, to come again 

 to turnips. 



A remarkable circumstance in the rotation of crops here 

 is, that spring corn will not succeed well after wheat which 

 follows cole seed : they will give an excellent summer- 

 fallow for this crop ; spread 14 loads of tine dung per acre, 

 and sowing wheat after the cole, get the finest crops, yet 

 if barley or oats follow, the produce is seldom tolerable ; 

 oats better than barley, hut neither good. 



Some farmers at Hemesby, and among others Mr. 

 Ferrier, on his own property : 



1. Turnips, 4. Wheat, 



2. Barley, 5. Pease, or oats, 



3. Seeds (clover once in 6. Wheat. 



10 or 12 years), 



It may easily be supposed that the wheat of the fourth 

 year is much better than that of the sixth. The course 

 cannot be defended even on Hemsby land, and the wheat 

 stubbles were some of them not so clean as they ought 

 to be. 



At Thrigby, Mr. Brown, &c. is in the Fleg five- 

 shift ; barley after the wheat ; with the variation, to avoid 

 clover every other round, of sowing half the barley with 

 other seeds, and d'bbling pease on the other half. 



At South Wals!iam, Mr. Syble, and others : 



1. Turnips, 



2. Barley, 



3. Seeds, one or two years, 

 o^^ [4. Wheat, 

 ■£.= t J c. Barley, ( 



„ 5. Barley, or oats, 

 ||t 16. Pease, 

 "" I L7. Wheat. 



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The variation of the seeds is to prevent clover coming 

 two rounds together, as the land here, as elsewhere, is 



sick 



