On (I Course of Croppiiuj adopted in Kent. 
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fed ofF with ewes and fat lambs in the spring, and on an average 
pro(hicc three-fourths of an ordinary faHow-crop. 
5th year. — Oats. One-iialf of this crop is sown with trefoil ; 
the other half is broadshared and cleaned immediately on the 
removal of the corn. 
6th year. — One-half trefoil. This crop we invariably cut for 
hay ; it produces an average of from 2 to 2 J tons per acre. As 
soon as the hay is removed, the land is broadshared and dunged 
for turnips to be consumed by fatting sheep. The other half ot 
the oat gratten is dunged for winter or mazagan beans, or else 
for peas. If beans are sown, the land is carefully hand and 
horse hoed, and then sown with turnips between the drills. If 
the crop is peas, I prefer that rape should follow ; for I find that 
wheat does better after peas, if rape is interposed, than if mustard 
or turnips are tried. 
7th year. — Wheat. An objection may be raised that the feeding 
of turnips or rape must delay the wheat-sowing till a late period. 
On land, however, of this description, I consider that we are in 
good time if we have finished wheat-sowing by the second week 
in December. 
Such has been the course of cropping, and the land, if in- 
spected, will show for itself that it has not been impaired, but 
vastly benefited by the system adopted. The advantages gained 
are manifest : for first, by this management the land, light and 
heavy together, is enabled to fatten from 700 to 800 tegs ; to 
keep 300 breeding-ewes, and to fat them and their lambs ; to fat 
yearly from 40 to 50 beasts, besides keeping many head of lean 
stock in the yards, chiefly on roots ; and of all this stock I 
calculate that one-third is kept and fattened by the succession 
crops. 
2ndly. The fallow is entirely done away with. The varied 
cultivation of the land so keeps the surface moving that the 
weeds cannot grow if they would ; the nourishment which would 
have gone to maintain rubbish being taken up by the standard 
crop. 
3rdly. We see that in the course of eight years fatting sheep 
are fed no less than six times on the land, and I need hardly 
enlarge upon the benefit which the soil will receive from the 
extra corn and cake which they consume. 
4thly. These green crops are so good a preparation for cereals 
that we now grow more corn than under the old system. 
On the heavy land the rotation is as follows : — 
1. Rye and tares. The land is manured and ploughed. I 
prefer manuring for this crop rather than the succeeding ones — 
