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thb farmer’s manual. 
according to the quality of the soil, or other circuni 
stances, and sow one and a half bushels to the acre, in 
the fall, or two in the spring, and dress with plaster. 
When your grass-land has lain 4 years, turn in 
your sward, by deep ploughing, (say 8 or 10 inches 
deep if possible,) and plant'corn, or potatoes, with a 
good dressing of compost, 'or yard dung, in each hill ; 
this will subdue your sward, for a second crop of corn, 
or potatoes, the next year, or any of the spring 
grains you may choose ; thqs you may have a suc- 
cession of all the crops you tpay choose, without ex- 
hausting your farm, even without manure ; but if you 
use the clover as a fertilizing prop, your lands wifi 
rise in their value under every ,rotine, and increase 
your revenue. Buck-wheat may, be one of your ro- 
tine of crops, if ploughed in when in full bloom, be- 
fore a wheat, or rye crop ; but l^efore corn it will 
not answer. 1 have generally dope best with buck- 
wheat, by selecting some particular piece of land, 
(unfit for the winter grains,) and devoted it to the cul- 
ture of buck-wheat, successively, for many years. 
To illustrate my ideas of the succession of crops a 
little more clearly, take the following : viz. 
Istyr. Barley, oats, flax, or spring wheat, or rye 
with clover, or clover and fimothy, &c. 
2d do. Clover, or clover and timothy, or orchard-grass. 
3d do. do. do. do. 
1th do. IVheat or rye upon the clover-sward, with 1, 
2, or 3 ploughings, with clover again, with 
or without a potatoe fallow, &c. as at the 
first. 
.1th do. Corn, or potatoes upon the timothy-sward, 
then barley, oats, 6zc. as at the first. 
6th do. Or corn, or potatoes again, or beans as fal- 
lows for wheat or rye ; or for the spring 
crops, as at the first. 
Under this management, every farmer can appor- 
tion his farm so as to have an equal portion of each 
successive crop, and never exhaust his soil. 
