"IN SHROPSHIRE. lg 
Both wheat and potatoes have been 
i-eckoned in the class of exhausting crops; 
but this mode of culture shews that great 
crops of both may be long alternately 
produced, which may probably be imputed 
to the culture by the spade and hoe, to the 
manuring every second year for potatoes, 
to the careful destroying of weeds, to the 
planting and sowing in the proper season, 
and to the preventing the earth from being 
too loose, by the mode of sowing the wheat 
before the potatoes are taken up. 
An experienced farmer is of opinion, that 
the same culture and succession of crops 
will answer on almost any land, if properly 
drained and skilfully managed ; for that 
altho strong land does not answer well 
for potatoes, nor very light land for wheat, 
yet that cultivation and manure, and parti- 
cularly the manure of lime, will soon render 
strong land, when drained, more loose and 
will make light land more firm, especially 
if cultivated with the spade and hoe. 
5 th April 18 05. 
