On the notations of Crops on Heavy Lamia. 
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At the end of September one-third of the remainder should be 
sown with two-and-a-half bushels of tares per acre. 
In the middle of October another third should be sown with 
the same (juantity per acre; and 
The last sowing should be finished at the end of October^ with 
three bushels per acre. 
When I begin to feed tares in the spring I keep the sheep 
entirely upon them ; the fold is moved twice in the day, and the 
tares are cut and put in moveable cribs. As fast as the land is 
cleared of tares it should, with the greatest expedition that the 
weather will admit of, be prepared for turnips ; for even under 
the favourable circumstances of the previous cultivation and 
manure, heavy land cannot be well worked in the spring, unless 
it be sufficiently dry ; and from my own experience I have 
found that heavy land will become earlier dry, and more friable, 
after bearing a crop of tares than after a winter fallow. 
The first turnips that are sown (at the end of May) should be 
an early sort, to be fed on land before the rape is ready ; then all 
the land that can be prepared before the middle of June should 
be sown with Swede turnips, to be carried off for winter food in 
the yards ; then all that can be prepared by the end of June 
should be sown with some sort better suited for late sowing; 
these may either be fed on the land or carted off ; the remainder 
of the tare-ground should be sown with rape, to be fed on the 
land in the autumn, after the early turnips. As the turnips and 
rape are cleared from the field, wheat should be immediately 
sown, and on one half the wheat, clover should be sown in the 
spring. The common objection to sowing clover in wheat does 
not apply when wheat is sown after turnips, as the wheat is not 
likely to be laid by an over luxuriance of straw, though I have- 
always found it a good yielchng crop. The other half should be 
sown with trefoil and rye-grass ; and although it may appear that 
this crop is sacrificed by being ploughed up early in the follow- 
ing spring, to make room for the more valuable one of spring 
tares, yet it will be found to produce a good quantity of food in 
the stubble after harvest, and very nutritious and wholesome food 
for sheep early in the spring. As soon as the land is sufficiently 
dry in the spring, a small portion of tares should be sown, and the 
rest in succession till the beginning of May. In feeding these 
tares off" with sheep the land will he manured for the following 
wheat crop ; and the clover ley may be manured by folding sheep 
on it at night, whilst they are eating the turnips and rape, as the 
land on which they grow has been sufficiently manured before. 
Wheat follows ; and after that the land should be ploughed and 
the winter-beans drilled in, in October, at the rate of two-and-a- 
half bushels per ncxe. The rows should be sufficiently far apart 
