The Agriculture of Glamorganshire. 
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IO5. per bushel, and it remains down for 8 or 10 years. In its 
green state it suits admirably for soiling purposes, viz. feeding 
horses and cattle in the yards. On suitable land, when well 
manured, it produces, when cut for hay, a heavy and valuable 
crop. In order to avert clover-sickness, which invariably occurs 
on the best-managed land cropped on the four-course rotation, 
the sowins of red clover is sometimes omitted, and white or 
Dutch clover substituted with good effect. This has to be 
depastured instead of being mown, and though a smaller return 
may be obtained for the time being, the ultimate result is satis- 
factory. It is a point worthy of consideration whether it would 
not in very many cases pay to fold the clover leas with sheep, 
instead of making them into hay and selling at prices which of 
late years have been anything but remunerative to the grower. 
Autumn wheat is chiefly grown after the clover leas, which are 
sometimes skim-ploughed before corn harvest, and converted into 
a bastard fallow. A second and deeper ploughing precedes 
the sowing of the crop in October or Xovember. In other cases 
the bastard fallow is dispensed with, when the clover-stubbles 
are grazed to the end of September, and afterwards ploughed, 
pressed, and sown in October. Oats are not nearly so ex- 
tensively grown as either wheat or barley. They sometimes 
succeed a root crop, but are more commonly grown after clover- 
leas depastured. The Black Tartarian variety is preferred 
Catch crops, such as Trifolium incarnatiim, winter vetches, 
mustard and Italian rye-grass, are great features on the best 
arable farms of Glamorganshire, where they are successfully 
grown. They produce a large quantity of valuable food for stock, 
and thereby help very materially to keep up the fertility of the 
land. They are chiefly grown on the stubbles after autumn 
wheat, and are cleared off the ground in time for yellow or white 
turnips. It is found advisable not to attempt to grow catch 
crops on land intended for mangolds and swedes, as the former 
cannot as a rule be got off the ground early enough for the main 
crops to follow. Trifolium is sown first in the catch-crop series, 
and as soon as possible after the white crop is removed from the 
ground. The other varieties of the catch-crop series follow as 
soon as time and circumstances will permit. Potatoes, beans, 
and peas are only grown to a limited extent. Thev are crops 
which in wet seasons are difficult to keep clean. These com- 
modities come in freely from foreign markets at prices which 
reduce the value of the home produce below a paying point. 
Clover should never be sown after any of these crops until a 
root crop has intervened. 
The above description of farming might convey the idea that 
the whole of this portion of the county is well farmed. This 
