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its thoroughly practical character, is eminently calculated to serve 
the purpose for which it was written. On the subject before us 
the author says, " Wheat should not be sown after summer fallows 
on enclosed clay-lands ; I have found that it is impossible to keep 
the land in condition and in a profitable course under that system. 
If the trade in barley was much depressed, and prices low, I would 
substitute oats occasionally after fallows." We shall leave the 
reader to draw his own conclusions, whether it may not be highly 
probable — the results of science and practice being the same — 
that the cases may be analogous throughout, and traced up to one 
cause : if so, it will go far to establish the principle we have laid 
down. 
As the practice of sowing wheat upon fallows is very general in 
the north and south clays, and failure and disappointment in point 
of yield often attend it, we have been induced thus to allude to the 
subject in the hope of leading those more immediately interested 
to trace the effect up to the true cause, and to apply or not a 
remedy as they may deem it better or worse than the disease. 
When wheat is sown upon fallows, 9 pecks to the acre is suffi- 
cient, if drilled ; but if sown by the hand, 1 or 2 pecks in addition 
may be necessary. If barley is substituted, 12 pecks will be found 
enough when drilled, although 14 are oftener sown bv hand. 
Third year. Clover. — For the respective quantities of seed- 
clover necessary, red or white, vide supra. The red clover will 
be liable to fail if sown oftener than every alternate course, or 
once in twelve or thirteen years, according as the white clover 
remains down one or two years. 
Red clover is mostly mown for fodder for the horses, and the 
after crop is used for soiling them during the summer and autumn, 
or allowed to remain for seed, in which case it ought to be mown 
the first time as early as practicable, so as to allow the seed crop 
an opportunity to ripen early. The Italian rye-grass is grown by 
some with great success in this districts and forms, in case of 
failure of the red clover crop, a most valuable substitute from the 
abundant produce it generally yields. 
Fourth gear, Wheat. — The practice of ploughing and pressing 
the clover-ley for wheat is com.mon in the loams of the southern 
part of the county, where it succeeds well ; but, on the strong 
sods, where wheat is intended to be sown after grass-seeds, it will 
amply repay the extra trouble of breaking up the ley during the 
summer, or as early in the autumn as it can be done, working it to 
a fine mould, and afterwards ploughing and drilling in the wheat. 
The roots of the wheat-plant can thus extend themselves more 
freely in the more permeable soil, and the slugs and snails being 
thereby brought to the surface, and becoming a prey to the vari- 
ous birds whose habits lead them to feed upon them, are pre- 
