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carrots, cabbag-es, lucerne, and other green food for horses, pigs, 
'Sec, in yards, there will remain five portions, each of 88 acres. 
If we follow one of these plots through the course of five years, 
we shall see the rotation, as at present proposed, for the whole 
farm. 
! Swedes, turniiis, mfinc;olds, and other irrccn 
crops manured with yard dunpr, arlificial 
manure, or both. 
fB.irley ; with this crop clover-seeds to be 
2nd „ 83 ,, < sown, or on a portion clover may be 
( omitted. 
3rd ,, SS „ .. Clover or beans, with dung. 
4tli „ 8S ;, .. Vv'']icat dunged before or after ])lanting. 
122 acres late sown white swedes or mangolds, 
dunged or di-essed with artificial 
manure. 
33 ,, beans and peas. 
33 „ oats to be dressed with giiano. 
88 ,, 
By the above plan it wall be seen that every year one-fourth of 
the land will be planted with swedes and turnips ; and the 22 
acres of late-soicn white swedes or mangolds, in No. 5, will be in 
turnip-crop the following; year. All the barley-land may be sown 
in good season, although the sheep may be eating swedes and 
mangolds lonrf after it is desirable to finish barley sowing. By 
the foregoing plan the clover will be grown on the same land not 
more often than once in five .years; and it is hoped that the 
failure of the clover-crop will thus be avoided. Circumstances 
may probably arise to cause an alteration in the proposed crop- 
ping ; for, as the late lamented Philip Pusey, Esq., justly re- 
marked, that " in rural afHiirs what was sometimes a good practice 
on the hills was a bad one in the A^alleys ;"' so may we say that a 
course of cropping that is considered good in the year 1863 may 
be found in the year 1873 lagging far behind the best of that 
distant day. ' » 
General Remarks on Waste Land. — No one who has been for 
anv length of time an observer of rural affairs can fail to re- 
mcmljer that often at the corners of the streets of our little mar- 
ket-to v,ns, and on our village-greens, he has seen groups of hardy, 
sturdy men, able and willing to Avork, and yet " standing all the 
day idle," because "no man had hired them"? And can he 
not also remember that at the same moment, within an easy dis- 
tance of these unemployed people, there was land then lying- 
waste, and j)roducing barely enough to sustain a few miserable 
half-starved cattle or sheep — land now cultivated, which then as 
well as now would have given honest employment, and borne then 
as well as now glorious crops of grain ? The days are happily 
