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The Production of Successive Green Crops. 
draught-purposes at the works, as also are the mule and ass ; the 
cow-manure is used for dyeing purposes at the works. 
A good supply of manure is obtained from the works, con- 
sisting of a mixture of human excrement, flue-ashes, and am- 
monia-water from the gas manufactory ; also a supply of gas-lime. 
I have had charge of the above farm for nearly nine years, and 
have conducted the following operations, by means of which I 
have obtained a continuous succession of green crops : — 
40 acres meadow land, grass cut and made into hay ; 
aftermath grazed. 
43 acres grazed. 
22 acres under cultivation. 
105 acres. 
Sixteen acres of the 22 are about half a mile distant from the 
works and farmyard, and on high ground ; they are cultivated 
under a four-course rotation, namely — 4 acres oats, 4 acres swedes, 
4 acres barley or oats, and 4 acres rye-grass and clover. 
The turnips are pulled and carted home in October and No- 
vember; the rye-grass and clover are ready to cut the first time 
the fourth week in June; the second cutting being ready about 
the second or third week in August. This for distinction I will 
call the 16 acres. 
The other 6 acres are near the works and farmyard, and are 
level, with a good strong soil, gravelly subsoil, and good natural 
drainage. They have been devoted entirely to the production 
of successive green crops for the last seven years. 
The six acres have been divided into five as equal parts as 
possible, which I will call Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 
No. 1. is manured during the autumn with gas-lime, which is 
ploughed in ; the land is prepared during the spring ; in the 
third week of April drills, 27 inches apart, are made; the land is 
manured with farmyard manure, and potatoes (the early sort) are 
planted in alternate drills. In the first week of May ox-cabbage 
plants, 30 inches apart, are put in the drills remaining (the ox- 
cabbage seed having been sown the previous August and pricked 
out during the autumn) ; during the months of May and June 
the land is hoed, cleaned, and the plants earthed up ; in August 
the potatoes are dug and sold at once, the small and diseased 
ones being steamed and stored for pigs. 
Immediately the potatoes are cleared the land is scarified, and 
the cabbages earthed up, as they will soon cover the vacant space. 
In October the outer leaves are taken off, and the cabbages are 
ready to cut in November. 
No. 2. — In January or February the cabbage-stalks are 
ploughed out, and gathered off; the land is harrowed and 
