Practical Agriculture. 
589 = 525 
ias follows: — (1) roots, including mangolds, a smaller portion 
I swedes, white-fleshed turnips, and a few white carrots and 
ibbages ; (2) oats or barley ; (3) clover; (4) wheat ; (5) green 
•)ps, part tares, part trefoil and white clover, with a portion 
t turnips or rape fed-olF by sheep, after the winter tares, or 
j er the trefoil ; (6) wheat ; (7) beans ; (8) wheat ; with a few 
ires of Italian ryegrass (sown at the last hoeing of the wheat), 
;d a few acres of trifolium (sown immediately after harvest), 
}d both consumed in time for the turnips, which begin the 
s ies over again. 
In the southern Eocene district, skirting the chalk, is a belt of Crops in the 
<antrv, described (in the full and admirable Report of the Rev. 
. hn Wilkinson, in the Royal Agricultural Society's ' Journal,' 
t1. xxii), as " a land of coppice, of game, of small farms, of 
'rh enclosures, and of the London clay." No settled rotation 
. rops is followed, the cultivators doing the best they can 
ording to season ; but fewer beans and more turnips and 
rley are grown than in the woodlands of the north ; particu- 
j ly where the ground has received that improvement which 
iits for a generation, a dressing of 25 to 30 tons per acre of 
lalk. In a broad bend stretching from Portsmouth to Romsey, 
: a better class of loamy soils, with larger holdings, about one- 
nth in pasture. Here a four-course system prevails, with a 
-course on some of the best-managed farms, — as mangolds, 
edes, or common turnips ; barley or oats ; seeds ; wheat ; 
ans and peas ; wheat. The agriculture is of a high character, 
eatlv advanced of late years in liberal manuring, cleanly 
inagement and feeding of live-stock ; and much hay and straw 
? allowed to be marketed at the seaports, on condition that 
tificial manure of equal value is brought back, or three tons 
stable dung in return for one of straw. In the valley of the 
von and the Stour, there is a mixture of vale and down farm- 
Z' including four-course farming, on some of the finest turnip 
d barley soils of Hampshire : there are also water-meadows 
d flood-meadows, which are a feature in the husbandry of the 
unty, the most famous being those on the river Avon, which 
)m the depth of the alluvial soil, and their gravelly subsoil, 
rpass the meadows on the Test, the Anton and the Itchen, 
:uch rest on clay or peat. Here dairying is much practised 
r both butter and cheese. 
In the middle or Cretaceous district, where the farms are Rotations oa 
rger, the buildings more adequate, the residences superior, chalk, 
e tenures fixed, and everything on a more liberal scale than 
evails elsewhere in the county, there is little uninclosed 
own land left — the chalk hills having been, for the most part, 
nverted into arable by the usual practice of paring and burn- 
