502 On the Advantages and Disadvantages of 
duced by other cropping:, as in the Lothians, by taking oats, two 
crops being taken successively if requisite. If an alternate course 
is pursued, such as taking oats, clover, wheat, and fallow well 
manured for turnips or rape, then it might with common attention 
go on without limitation as to time, producing more food for stock 
than it did under grass. At the same time, crops of grain for the 
public good being the main object, it becomes worthy of consi- 
deration as to how far this should be carried out. 
Unquestionably some of the best grazing-lands, possessing a 
deep open friable loam, make astonishingly good arable lands, 
yielding excellent crops of corn for many years in succession ; and 
if kept clean and properly manured, would rarely, if ever, re- 
quire a fallow or fallow crop for feeding. In proof of this asser- 
tion, the following extract from the Tithe-Book kept by the 
lessees of the tithes in the parish of Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, 
will show the course of cropping pursued for 20 years in a small 
field of about 4 acres without diminishing its fertility, so long as 
it was supplied with manure. This field the writer saw broken 
up ; it has been under his observation throughout ; the crops 
have been uniformly good, and the mustard and wheat crops 
splendid. The land naturally was never considered first-rate, 
but being for the most part of the term in the occupation of a 
veterinary surgeon, it was supplied with stable dung. It was 
broken up from grass in 1826, and has borne cropping as fol- 
lows : — 
1826. 
Mustard. 
1831. 
Mustard. 
1836. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1840. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1827. 
Mustard. 
1832. 
Mustard. 
1828. 
Mustard 
1833. 
Mustard 
1!=37. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1841. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1844. 
Wheat. 
1829. 
Mustard. 
1834. 
Mustard. 
1838. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1842. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1815. 
Potatoes. 
1830. 
Wheat. 
1835. 
Potatoes. 
1839. 
Half Wheat, 
half Potatoes. 
1843. 
Half Beans, 
half Potatoes. 
The mustard was the brown variety, and allowed to seed, which 
is so far thought to be exhausting that no landlord will permit it 
to be taken. The field is still undergoing the same course of 
crops. 
The profitable production of food for man being the grand 
and ultimate olyect in agriculture, the conversion of such lands 
into tillage would easily and readily be compensated by the hovel, 
thc;hammel, or fold-yard mode of soiling or feeding — part of the 
food thus fed being grown on the arable lands, such as clovers, 
