20 A Grass Crop taken after Pasture. 



the cost per annum will be about the same as a 

 favmer now spends per annum if he leaves his land 

 two years in grass. As Lord Leicester has pointed 

 out, it is most essential that, on ploughing up the 

 pasture, a green crop should first of all be taken ; and 

 I may even go so far as to say that to adopt any other 

 course would be to ensure a partial, and perhaps a very 

 considerable, failure when the system is first begun, 

 though, as I have elsewhere pointed out, the second 

 rotation may be begun with oats should this be most 

 suitable to the circumstances of the farmer. 



