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Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, thinks that the comraon 

 course of, 



1. Turnips, 4. Seeds, 



2. Barley, 5. Wheat, 



3. Seeds, two years 6. Barley ; 



which, is the usual system about him, would be improved 

 by the following variation : 



1. Turnips, 5. Seeds, 



2. Barley, 6. Pease, 

 3 Seeds, 7. Wheat, 



4. Seeds, 8. Barley ; 



in which the land would have rest for feeding, three years 

 in eight, instead of two in six, as in the other, 

 Mr. England, at Bingham : 



1. Turnips, 4. Seeds, 



2. Barley, 5. Wheat; 



3. Seeds, 



never adding barley after the wheat. Sometimes on ten- 

 der land, not equal to wheat, drills pease on the cllond, 

 and then, if the land be clean, takes barley, or even wheat, 

 but not without rape cake. . 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighron : ■ 



1. Turnips, 5. Wheat, drilled, 



2. Barley, 6. Turnips, 



3. Trefoil, white clover, 7. Barley, 



and ray, 8. Clover, 



4. Ditto, 9. Wheat. 



Every idea of this most accurate farmer, merits much at- 

 tention ; and this course among the rest : whenever red clover 

 is left a second year, it disappears, and the land is principal- 

 ly covered with ray grass: query — if it is not much better, 

 when red clover is the objedl:, never to leave it two vears: 

 this is an improvement in Mr. Reeve's intention, but it 

 has not yet been his general pra(^icc. 



Mr, 



