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ROTATION OF CROPS. 
SOTATION of crops. [ ^th f ew exceptions, cannot be cultivated advan- 
The experience of husbandmen, from the earliest I tageously in continued succession on the same soil. 
times, has shown that the same kinds of plants, The same or similar species have a tendency to 
I. TABLE OF ROTATIONS IN AN ORDINARY SANDY SOIL. 
First Year. 
Second. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Seventh. Eighth. 
Ninth, j Tenth. 
Indian 
Corn or 
Carrots 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Buckwheat 
Oats 
Potatoes. 
Peas, or 
Carrots 
Peas and 
Turnips 
Carrots 
Clover 
Oats or Rye 
Buckwheat 
Potatoes 
Barley and 
Turnips ' 
Clover 
Potatoes 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Rye. or Barley 
and Turnips 
Oats 
Indian Corn or 
Carrots 
Rye and Turnips 
Oats or Potatoes 
Indian Corn or 
Carrots 
Indian 
Corn or 
Carrots 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Indian 
Corn 
Rye 
Clover 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Oats or 
Buckwheat 
Potatoes 
Rye and Tur- 
nips 
I " dian Clover 
Corn 
Indian 
Corn or 
Clover 
Clover 
Oats or 
Peas 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Buckwheat. 
Potatoes, or 
Carrots 
Carrots 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Rye and Turnips 
Rye and Turnips 
Oats 
Rye and Turnips 
Rye and Indian 
Turnips Corn 
Indian j 
Corn 
h 
II 
. TABLE OF ROTATIONS FOR THE RICHEST KIND OF LIGHT SOIL. 
First Year.] Second. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. Seventh. Eighth. 
Ninth. ' Tenth. 
Flax, 
Clover, * 
or Car- ' 
rots 
Wheat 
or Indian 
Corn 
Oats 
Barley 
and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye, 
Carrots 
or Bar- 
ley and 
Turnips 
Rye or 
Carrots 
Rye, Barley 
and Turnips 
Potatoes 
Potatoes 
Potatoes 
Potatoes 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye, Barley 
and Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and Turnips 
Oats 
Barley and Tur- 
nips, or Oats 
Flax or Carrots 
Flax 
Flax or Carrots 
Flax 
Oats 
Clover 
Rye 
Clover 
Clover 
Clover 
*If Clover is sown with the flax, it is cut in the second year, and another year is added to the rotation ; but in Eng- 
land, it is more usual to sow carrots with the flax, and sow oats or barley the second year. 
III. TABLE OF ROTATIONS FOR A GOOD CLAY OR STRONG LOAM. 
First Year.j Second. Third 
Flax 
Clover 
Wheat 
or Indian 
Corn 
Rape and 
Tur 
nips ; 
Oats 
Barley 
and 
Turnips 
Barley 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Wheat 
or In- 
dian 
Corn 
Fourth, 
Carrots or 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Rape, Car- 
rots, or 
Beans 
Oats, Clo- 
ver, or Pota 
toes 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Fifth. 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Clover, 
Rape and 
Turnips 
Oats 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Clover 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Potatoes 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Eighth. 
Wheat or In- 
dian Corn 
Rye and Tur 
nips, Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rape and Tur 
nips 
Flax 
Rye, or Barley 
and Turnips 
Ninth. 
Rye and Tur- 
nips 
Rape or Car 
rots 
Oats or Flax. 
Rye or Barley 
and Turnips 
Oats or Flax 
Oats or Flax 
Flax 
Flax 
Flax 
'Is is to be understood that wherever turnips are associated with any plant, they are to be sown in July, after harvest- 
ing the other crop. 
'row feebly, degenerate, or become more subject to I same ground ; and hence the rule which forms the 
hseases, when cultivated consecutively upon the | basis of a system of regular alternation of crops 
