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The Bean-Turnip Falloio. 



produce should be only 2 quarters per acre, there would be no 

 loss, but still a gain of 27/. 10^. 



I may observe further, that the accommodation of the bean straw 

 is a matter not to be overlooked on a farm where there is but 

 little grass-land ; and it also enables the farmer to reserve a larger 

 portion of his clover crop for seed. And it is, moreover, a fact 

 of no little importance, that the whole, or at least nearly the 

 whole, of the horse-coru required for the farm may thus be 

 supplied out of 2i fourth part of the fallow, if it should be desir- 

 able so to apply it. There is also another mode in which some 

 portion of the crop may be veiy profitably applied, and that is, 

 pulling it in a green state for the pigs in the yard, for six weeks 

 or more before it is ripe, and even some time after ; they have 

 then the whole benefit of the stalk as well as of the bean, and 

 consuming every part of it, they thrive well : and this mode of 

 keeping them is found very convenient at that rather difficult 

 time previous to their going to shack. 



In conclusion I beg to be allowed to observe, that in treating 

 on this, confessedly my favourite agricultural topic, I hope I may 

 have escaped the charge of any tendency to enthusiasm, or to the 

 slightest degree of false-colouring, anxiously desiring only to 

 speak the words of soberness and truth ; and if I have succeeded 

 in explaining how a large increase of profit from the fallow may 

 with certainty be obtained, and that without any deterioration of 

 the land such as arises from other crops commonly grown on the 

 fallow, and have also proved the same by my own recorded 

 expeinence of five years, I trust that my pen will not have been 

 employed in vain ; but that it may be happily instrumental in 

 inducing others to adopt this course as a systematic part of the 

 fallow — not, however, forgetting the sound principle which was 

 enunciated by Mr. Pusey (Journal xi. p. 421), that "it is not 

 what is grown on the farm, but what is sold from it, which im- 

 poverishes it." 



Feb. 26, 1853. 



XXVIIl. — On Improving Grass Land, Sfc. By Richard 



MlLWARD. 



To the President. 



Dear Mr. Pusey,— I promised to send you a statement respect- 

 ing the plan I have pursued in improving grass land. 



The fields in question had been laid down in grass many 

 years ago, in small ridges or lands from 4 to 8 yards wide. 

 There was no spring-water, but the land was wet, because the 

 rain-water could not get away through the retentive subsoil. I 



