il4 COURSE OF CROPS, 



3. Clover, mown twice, produce three tons ; 



4. Wheat, dibbled, 8|: coombs ; lias had ten round ; 



5. Oats, fifteen coombs. 



About Harleston, on tlieir good loams of 20s. or 25s. 

 an acre, on a marie bottom, they pursue pretty much 

 this rotation : 



1. Fallow, 3. Beans, 



2. Wheat, 4. Wheat. 

 With this variation : 



1. Fallow, 4. Beans, 



2. Wheat, 5. Wheat. 



3. Clover, 



The beans all dibbled, one row on a furrow ; three 

 bushels of Windsor ticks per acre : they used to manure 

 for the vtheat after them, but of late have got much into 

 the pra6iice of manuring for the beans, which lias suc- 

 ceeded far better, not only for tlie beans, but with, the 

 wheat also. They most approve of ploughing the land 

 for beans in the autumn, and leaving it in order, well 

 water-gripped, for planting, after harrowing, the end of 

 February or beginning of March, on this stale furrow. 

 Crop, from eight to twelve coombs an acre. Dibbling is 

 6s. 6d. an acre, and hand-hocing, twice, lOS. — 5s. each 

 time. They hairow, and roll in the clover on the wheat, 

 in the spring. 



Mr. Salter, at Winborough, applied summer-fal- 

 lowing, the first year of his taking his farm, much of 

 which consists of various loams and sands, on a strong 

 marley and clayey bottom, and abounding with springs ; 

 but after that, he has never fallowed, and never will. — ■ 

 His expression was, " a man is a madman that summer" 

 fallows." J-Ie is very regularly in the four-shift course of : 



1. Turnips, 3. Clover, 



2. Barley, 4. Wheat. 



If 



