The Succession of Green Crops. 
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assured that very little hazard attends this productive system in 
any season.* 
The 4 acres of tares we mow for horses. As the land is 
cleared we plough once, roll, harrow, and drill common turnips. 
We have thus sketched the needful operations connected with 
the herbage crop for the entire year, and may now pause to 
consider the succession of green crops we have provided. 
January. — Swedes ; we usuallv draw off one-third, feeding 
the rest on the land. 
February. — The same. 
March. — Beet ; we usually draw off half ; less on the poorer 
fields and more on the better. Towards the middle of the month 
rye will be coming on. We either fold sheep on the beet and give 
them a few hours' run on the rye, or keep them on the rye and 
take beet to them there. 
April. — Beet, rye ; towards the end of the month feed tre- 
Jblium or clover. 
May. — Clover, trefolium, Avith still a few beet, if possible. 
June. — Clover, trefolium, tares, with still a few beet, if 
possible. 
July. — Clover, second-crop clover. It is probable that a suf- 
ficient bite will not have sprung up after the scythe on the 
clover-layers by the time the trefolium will be ploughed for 
swedes ; it will therefore be necessary to feed some of the clover- 
layer, so arranging that there shall be a bite on it between the 
time when the trefolium is finished and the aftermath is getting 
ready. Tares will still be good food for horses. 
August. — Second-crop clover, and stubblefeed, and tares. 
September. — Second-crop clover, stubble-feed, with night folds 
on mustard as soon as it is ready. 
October. — The same. 
November. — Mustard and coleworts. Beet may be used noAv in 
the stalls if required. 
December. — Mustard, coleworts, common turnips, after tares : 
swedes, if required. In the stalls swedes will now be available. 
If done gradually, stock will take no harm in being changed 
from beet to swedes, or vice versa. 
We have thus provided for the entire year, and we do not see 
how it is possible in any other way to produce an equal weight 
or value of food on such land as this. 
There are two or three other plants not yet mentioned which 
are often cultivated. On certain soils lucerne and sainfoin are 
* Since -writing this essay we have had the experience of the present remark- 
able season of drought. Finding that the trefolium would be very short, we saved 
it for seed. This crop realised 10/. per acre, and the turnips we have after it are 
but little inferior to the average of our neighbours. — R- L. E. 
