THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



year planted, and should the crops n 



Wheat per acre, has been already published 

 at large, if the details were again stated,' so thai 



jy, and Indian Corn Meal, proper 

 poor man would not so often have r 

 >r for his dry and expensive dinm 

 If the upper classes would set a good example in the 



to the almost exclusion of bread, it would i 

 eagerly followed by their less wealthy neighbor 

 It may be argued that bread save3 cooking and r 



i of Rice with L'arsnip, Carrot, Turnip, 



ol a small quantity 01 lard or hV " 



lows :— A Course of Cropping for Sandy Soils : ] 

 year, Turnips ; 2d, Oats ; 3d, Potatoes ; 4th, Whea 

 5th, Turnips ; 6th, Barley or Oats ; 7th, Potatoe: 

 8th, Wheat; 9th, Turnips; loth, Oats or Baric 

 11th, Potatoes; 12th, Wheat. Or, if the locality is' 

 situated that Potatoes cannot be marketed without t 



Mr. Johnson said 

 of cropping will 



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12th Barley and Oats.' 







i which I ha 



ve myself practised with 



the 



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plot of sandy soil lyingby the side of 

 it distinctly under. 



stood that I only recommend 



lessen? adeSCripti f° n 





hould recommend a different scheme. 



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eaning it again ; but, by 



perhaps, spendii 





n what ought 





ier crops which ought to 







for some ot 







ded to in d 



ue course. Sandy soils 













*n applied, is 





r washed down through 







ind therefore I b 



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er to apply 



manure in 



smaller quantities and 



whereas, by laying 

 r years, a portion of 

 tive soil and thereby 



ne land foul, and I do not 



Vheat ; 5th, Turnips ; 6th, i 



7th, Beans or Potatoes ; 8th, Wheat or other 

 This is a four years' course, which by varying tin 



the fourth course shift, I should recommend I 



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2d, Wheat ; 3d, Clover; 4th, a grain crop ; 5th, " " 

 6th, Wheat ; 7th, Beans, Peas, Tares, or Rape 

 grain crop. This, when the land is kept in ord 



g ther like'Mr. Emmerson's rotation, proposed 

 last meeting, for strong Ian. is : because I think ht 

 too often over :i heat crop, as I 



to grow Wheat upon the same land. Whereas, in th< 



I Sept. 



rior Grass Lands, and how far beneficial. 







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•died by courtesy bread, but 







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its being un 







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in th, mam; 

 proportion of 





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the notice of 



11 ranks.— Falcon. 



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Farmers' Clubs. 



Darlingto 



: Thr Best Rotation of Crops for Strong 





p. Wf,) Mr. Emmerson proposed three 





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meeting) sent 



entered into. I am therefore glad, on 



w^noTfulJy 



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casion, to see Mr. Johnson present, as I 



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ome parties may object to the number of 





t crops that are there proposed, as being 







an expensive system of management, in 







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tlor, of Cramlington, introduced this i 



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