The Farming of Cheshire. 
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when the beans are deposited by means of a small drill, which is 
fixed immediately behind the heel of the plough. The beans being- 
thus sown, manure is spread along the rows ; a furrow is then 
thrown over them, and as soon as the land is sufficiently dry, the 
whole field is rolled with a light roller to level the furrows, and 
then harrowed with a pair of common harrows. The bean crop 
is afterwards kept clean by the plough and small scarifier. The 
course on strong clay is 
Ist; clover root, pastured, or if mown, manured ; 2nd, pasture ; 3rd, beans ; 
4th, wheat ; 5th, fallow or turnips, or part potatoes ; 6th, wheat, laid down 
with clover and other seeds. 
In the Hundred of Wirral, on a farm of 150 acres, the following 
course has been successfully adopted : — 
1st, clover ; 2nd, wheat ; 3rd, beans or potatoes ; 4th, wheat : 5th, tur- 
nips ; 6th, wheat or oats, with seeds. 
Another course, on a poor stiff clay land farm, in the Hundred 
of Wirral, is as under : — 
1st, clover ; 2nd, wheat ; 3rd, green crop ; 4th, oats and seeds. 
On the above farms thorough- draining and subsoiling are in- 
variably performed previous to cultivating green crops. 
In the Hundred of Broxton another course, on the drained land, 
is in the following order : 
1st, oats on ley ; 2nd, beans in drills, manured, instead of fallow, as for-' 
merly ; 3rd, wheat ; 4th, oats, laid down with clover and other seeds. 
Another course, adopted on stiff weak undrained clay, runs 
thus — 
1st, oats on ley, one furrow ; 2nd, fallow manured with a compost of lime, 
&c. ; 3rd, wheat ; 4th, oats and seeds, pastured five or six years. 
Another course, on the better kind of clay land — 
1st, oats ; 2nd, wheat ; 3rd, fallow, manured with lime or compost ; 4th, 
wheat; 5th, oats; 6th, clover, pastured and manured before breaking up 
again. 
Another mode of agriculture, differing from any of the fore- 
going, is almost peculiar to a district of the county which borders 
on the Duke of Bridgewater's canal, between Runcorn and Al- 
tnncham, the principal object of the farmer being to raise early 
crops for the INlanchester markets, as he has the double advantage 
of canal carriage for his produce, and of Ijringing back manure to 
his farm at a reasonable cost, no tonnage dues being levied, and 
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