263 
BELGIAN ROTATION. 
Root 
wniie 1 
and 
urop. 
Green 
Crnn 
v^rop. 
Acres. 
Bush. 
Tons. 
11 Oats 
440 
11 Rape and potatoes, 
l~ 
^ 77 
\- 
i 77 
11 Wheat 
264 
11 Rye and turnips ... 
1 1 A 
J lU 
11 Barley and carrots.. 
440 
164 
44 
11 Wheat 
264 
— 
11 Rye and turnips ... 
352 
110 
99 
2112 
604 
English calculated at 
1400 
300 
712 
304 
Manure used and collected at home 
from thirty-three head of cattle ; — 
Urine..". 46,200 gallons. 
Dung 364 tons. 
Which produce one-third more com, 
and twice the quantity of root and 
green crop. 
Difference on 100 Acres. 
So much, then, for the existing state of agriculture over 
this district. Many other suggestions may be added, — 
First, respecting economy in the use of single horse carts, 
which, if made on the Scotch plan, will enable one horse 
to draw one ton, and bear the weight on his back down hill, 
while three horses, in a clumsy waggon, rarely draw more 
than two tons, and the shaft horse bears all the weio-ht down 
hill. Secondly, in the feeding of horses, which varies, as was 
stated at the Wrentham club, among different farmers, as much 
as 50 per cent., but which, on the general plan, consumes one- 
fourth of the produce of the farm, one horse consuming as 
much as will support a labourer, his wife, and two children. 
Thirdly, regarding steam thrashing machines, by which sixty 
bushels of grain can be thrashed out at the expense of one cwt. 
of coals, there being not one farm in Fifeshire of fifty acres 
without one ; these grind the corn, hummel the barley, and 
steam the food for the cattle, &c. Fourthly, respecting 
manures, — in the manufacture of what are called portable 
