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Scheme of a Succession of Field Crops. 



view to show them how they might cultivate one hundred 

 acres of land with only two horses. The Directoire approved 

 of the system, and wished to have it published, as did my 

 worthy friend, the late M. Thouin. It was then the custom 

 in France to sow about seventy seeds to every square foot, 

 and as I proposed to sow only one quarter of that quantity, 

 the proposal was very acceptable to the Directory, who were 

 in dread of a famine. 



Perhaps these tables may be useful to gardeners, who act 

 also as farm managers for their employers ; they will also 

 afford hints to proprietors who farm their own lands, and to 

 emigrants in the British colonies, how to regulate the distri- 

 bution of labour, and raise abundance of forage for live 

 stock, and consequently a large quantity of manure. 



In the months of December and January, which are gene- 

 rally frosty, the manure is carted upon the land, and the corn 

 thrashed and laid in the granary, or taken to market. In the 

 month of June the hay is made, and in July and August the 

 corn is cut and stacked. 



In my next letter I shall give you some account of my life 

 and gardening transactions for above three quarters of a cen- 

 tury. I remain, dear Sir, &c. 



Thomas Blaikie. 

 A Paris, Rue de Colisee, No. 23. 

 July, 1826. 



Tables referred to by Mr. Blaikie. 



Acres of Work necessary to be done in every Month in the Year. 



1 Jan. 



i 



Feb. 



Mar. 



Apr. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



30 Wheat 

 10 Oats 

 5 Barley 

 3 Vetches 

 2 Beans 

 5 Turnips 

 5 Cabbages 

 24 Field beet 

 24. Carrots 

 10 Potatoes 

 15 Clover 

 10 Lucerne 



100 Acres. 



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5 



24 

 24 





10 



5 

 5 



= 



5 



= 



15 

 5 



5 

 1 



10 



24 

 24 



5 



- 



— 



10 



15 



15 



10 



— 



5 



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20 



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