606 = 540 
Practical Agriculture. 
often some difficulty in feeding them off. Two-thirds of thi 
crop is fed on the land, and the remainder carted off. It mu.' 
be understood that under no circumstances are two ploughing 
given to the land for this or other crops. 
The barley crop follows the swedes and mangolds ; aboi 
2^ to 3 bushels is the quantity usually sown. 
Seeds are sown upon the barley ; a proportion varying wit 
the necessities of the farm, but averaging, nearly one-half tl 
acreage of seeds is mown, the remainder grazed by sheep 
and about one-third allowed to remain down a second yea 
partly for the purpose of improving the poorer portions 61 tl 
farm, and partly to enable the ewe flock to be kept entirely . 
home, as keeping is never taken off the farm. The grazed see( 
have a good quantity of cake or corn consumed upon them I 
the sheep, and the second year's seeds are broken up by tl 
steam-plough in either July or August for wheat. Wheat 
sown as early as circumstances will permit, generally at tl 
middle or end of October, or the beginning of Novembe 
About 7 pecks (or occasionally 2 bushels per acre) is the qua 
tity of seed used. The wheat is always harrowed and careful 
hand-hoed. 
Beans or peas follow the wheat, the land being again manun 
for these crops at the rate of 12 or 14 loads an acre. The beai 
are drilled at a distance of 14 inches apart, and at the rate 
2^ bushels an acre. They are hoed with hoes 11 inches wid 
Peas are sown at the rate of 5 bushels, some early variety of t 
white kind being chosen. Wheat (or occasionally barley) folloi 
the pulse crop, and concludes the rotation. 
Mr. Line's On a brown gravelly loam, Mr. Lane of Broom Court, ne 
extra™ °^ ' Alcester, interpolates extra crops after beans and peas in a si 
«n bamToii"" course rotation, as follows : (1) fallow, nearly all mangold 
(2) barley, or occasionally spring wheat ; (3) clover or seed 
(4) wheat ; (5) beans or peas, with extra crops ; (6) wheat or oa 
A small portion of the fallow is appropriated to spring fee 
consisting of one acre sown with 1 bushel of rye and 2 bush* 
of vetches ; one acre sown with 1 bushel of winter oats a: 
2 bushels of vetches ; and two are sown each wirti 3 bushels 
vetches. The four acres are afterwards broken up and so\ 
with green-globe turnips. 
Beans and jyjj.. Lane's peculiar practice in extra cropping is thus d 
turnii)s. scribed by Mr. Little : — " On the portion of the pulse coui 
allotted to beans (generally about 35 acres) the winter varif 
is invariably sown, the land having previously received a dre: 
ing of 12 one-horse loads per acre of farmyard-manure. T 
beans are planted early in November after one ploughii; 
2 bushels an acre being drilled in double rows 9 inches apai 
