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will explain the mode by which he conceives that system of 
culture should be carried on. 
Mr. Ingham I once tried to procure a crop of rape 
upon stubble, but that failed. 
Mr. Thompson A crop of winter tares might be 
sown in the first instance, followed by turnips, which would 
be valuable food for ewes and lambs in spring. Ewes will 
give more milk when fed on white turnips than on swedes. 
A Member — What is to become of the barley crops after 
tares ? 
Mr. Thorp. — Barley after tares was not mentioned: but by 
tares being sown on stubble, eaten off in spring, and then sown 
with turnips, the soil would be in a good state for growing 
barley in the next year ; for you have two green crops eaten 
off by sheep instead of one, and the land well manured. 
Mr. Torre I perfectly agree with Mr. Thorp in regard 
to the great advantages to the country which might be deriv- 
ed from economy in manures ; but I do not agree with him 
as to intermediate crops between stubble and turnips. I 
think we should be satisfied with one good crop; for the 
crops of turnips in the north produce more in one year than 
the crops in the south in four. I concur in the observation 
of Professor Johnston, that a man who professes to be a 
good farmer will never grow a bad crop. Upon all light 
soils, every practical farmer must know the difficulty of 
getting quit of all descriptions of rubbish, which he must 
do, to be a good farmer. I would ask, can this be done, if 
the farmer introduces after stubble a previous crop to his 
turnip crop ? I have myself visited Belgium, but consider 
that national industry is only exhibited there upon a small 
scale as compared with England. Belgium has a climate 
which we do not possess in the north of England. When 
Mr. Thorp alludes to the Netherlands having a poorer soil 
than England, I do not agree with him. They possess 
greater facilities of producing late crops than we do. I have 
