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Tke Succession of Green Crops. 
can point out what is best in a certain climate and witli a certain 
course of cropping, it will not be diflicuit for any experienced 
farmer to adapt such system to the peculiarities of his own par- 
ticular occupation. We wish it to be distinctly understood that 
we call that system the best which unites the most abundant 
production possible to the land with the provision of a " con- 
tinuous succession " of green crops ; and further, that we recom- 
mend nothing which either entrenches upon the usual breadth of 
corn or which prejudicially interferes with its production. 
We propose to deal with the four-course system, as being that 
most widely followed, and, as we believe, on the whole the best 
for most occupations, whilst it is also the system with which 
personally we are most practically acquainted. In respect to 
climate, the eastern counties will be our guide. It is in Suffolk 
that we are now pursuing the practices we are about to re- 
commend. 
It will be necessary for us to deal separately with light soils 
and those of a heavier texture, as what is suitable for the former 
is often quite unsuitable for the latter. We will illustrate the 
systems we advocate on either description of soil with an example 
of 200 acres of land, all arable. 
Light Soils. 
First, then, we start with 200 acres of light, tender soil, with 
either sand or gravel as the subsoil. Let us visit this farm in 
July, and, supposing it to have been managed as we recommend, 
the respective shifts will then be occupied as follows, viz. : — 
50 acres with wheat. 
50 acres with roots, thus apportioned : 20 acres beet after rye ; 
26 acres swedes after trifolium ; 4 acres tares, followed with late 
common turnips. 
50 acres with barley. 
50 acres with clover and peas, viz., 25 acres red clover, with a 
little rye-grass ; 5 acres mixed layer (white clover, trefoil, and 
rye-grass); 20 acres early peas. 
We will now describe the management of this farm for the 
ensuing year in so far as the green crops are concerned. 
The peas, being of an early kind, will be fit to " make up " in 
July. This operation must not be delayed till the peas are 
ripe, or some will be lost by "shelling out" in the necessary 
handling of them. Immediately the peas haAe been " made up" 
they will be moved by hand into rows, while the intermediate 
land is ploughed and 2 pecks per acre of mustard seed is sown 
broadcast and harrowed in. This being completed, the peas will 
be shitted on to the newly-sown ground, while the land they have 
