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Fourth Year. — Oals. — The cultivation is the same as for 
barley, and in plouj^hing the land should be well consolidated l)y 
the press-roller. The best sorts of oats to sow on such soils as 
we hav(> been treatin<j of are black and white Tartarian, and late 
or common Scotch oats — such as the late Anj^us variety. Tlie 
quantity of seed should be from 2 to 3 bushels drilled in G to 8 
inch rows about the 1st of March. 
Fifth Year. — Mangold fVurzcI. — Tlie land is prepared in 
every respect as for turnips. The seed is j^enerally dibbled at 
distances varying; from 12 to 18 inches. The horse and hand 
hoeing are so much the same as for turnips that any detail would 
be only a repetition of what has already been said. The crop 
when ready is all pulled and stored either in tlie field or carted 
home and stored as near the boxes as may be convenient. Those 
left in the field are consumed by ewes and lambs, for which 
purpose they are excellently adapted, as they are very productive 
of milk. It is dangerous to give mangold to cattle in as large 
quantities as they will eat until spring, as this root is apt to 
produce colic and death when given in winter. 
Sixth Year. — A Corn Crop soion doion icith Clover and Seeds. 
— Cultivation the same as in the second and fourth years of the 
rotation. 
Seventh Year. — Clover and Rye-Grass. — As the object to be 
sought after in the clover crop is not only a good swathe of grass 
or hay, but also good pasture, a large quantity of seed should be 
sown. The usual quantities sown are 8 lbs. of red clover, 4 lbs. 
white, 2 lbs. yellow, and 2 bushels of Pacey's rye-grass ; but 
some good farmers sow 12 lbs. of red, 8 lbs. of white, and 5 lbs. 
of yellow clover, and consider that the extra expense is well 
repaid by the earlier and thicker sward obtained. The quantity 
of sheep wliich the Lincolnshire farmers put on their chalky soils 
is 5 ewes with their lambs per acre, which keeps them from the 
middle of April till the land is ploughed for wheat. If the clover 
be good and the land in high condition, the ewes get little oil-cake, 
but if the land is poor they get from ^ lb. to a whole lb. per day 
each until the lambs are taken off. The plan pursued on Whit- 
field experimental farm is, however, more profitable than this. 
It consisted in mowing off the whole clover crop once, which 
was consumed by cattle in boxes, except what was required for 
hay. The land was pastured by sheep both before and after 
being mown. Say that three fields were to be operated on, these 
ewes and lambs were put on No. 1 at the 1st of April, giving 
the ewes only a small portion of the field at one time, but letting 
the lambs run over the whole of it, and taking care never to eat 
the clover too close. When No. 1 was well gone over in this 
way, the sheep were put in No. 2, which was treated in the same 
