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Rotation of Crops for Heavy Claijs. 
clover ; after that, sown with winter-tares, eaten off green bv 
fatting sheep;* then a bastard fallow for M'heat — the other half 
fallowed for turnips, part eaten on the land and part drawn off ; 
then fallowed for spring-tares or coleseed, eaten off by fatting 
sheep; then ready for wheat again. For example, say if the 
farm be 200 acres of arable land — 
50 acres AVhcat. 
50 „ OiUs. 
25 ,, Winter Tares. 
25 „ Fallow fur Turnips. 
25 „ Clover. 
25 „ Coleseed and Tares. 
200 acres. 
This is a system I have used for some years on strong retentive 
day-soil, which I have found answer well.f 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. S. NoWLSON. 
Nyn Farm, Norlhaw, Herts. 
is as dry as, from the character of the soil, is possible. Still the arable 
land is so tenacious, and its reduction to a tilth must be aft'ected so much 
Ijy the action of the atmosphere, that every plan for its cultivation sliould 
be arranged to avoid unnecessary trampling eitlier with horses or sheep 
in wet weather. 
The oliject, therefore, of Mr. Nowlson's rotation is to prepare as much 
of his land as possil^le in the summer and autumn months. For instance, 
the advantage of sowing oats after wheat is, that tlie wheat stubble, on 
being ploughed up in the autumn, remains rough through the winter, can 
be liarrowed down to a fine tilth, and the oats sown in the very first dry 
week which occurs in the early spring. Experience has shown that 
nothing but early sowing can secure an abundant crop, and this could not 
have been done after the land had been trampled by .sheep feeding off 
roots, &c. 
Indeed the interval which intervenes in the spring of many years, be- 
tween the time when the land is too soft to be worked, and when it has 
liecome excessively hard, is often so short, that unless the preparations tor 
spring corn have l)een nearly completed in the previous autumn, those 
crops are with difficulty got in at all. — R. G. Wklford. 
* One half of all the green and fallow crops, except the clover, is fed off 
])y ewes, and lambs fattened on corn for the London market. The other 
half is drawn off for other cattle.— R. G. W. 
t I saw the principal field of wheat, of about .30 aci'es, on the day the 
reaping of it commenced (17th August, 1843), and a more splendid crop 
is seldom seen. It has been estimated by various competent judges who 
have seen it at considerably more than 40 bushels to the acre. This iden- 
tical field, fifteen years ago, produced a wheat crop which ofili/ averaged 
G Imsliets to the acre. The wheat now growing is " Revetts," a bearded 
, wheat.— R. G. W. 
Nor thaw, Darnel, Avfjust IQlh, 1843. 
