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ROTATION OF CROPS. 
ROTATION OF CROPS. 
The experience of husbandmen, from the earliest 
times, has shown that the same kinds of plants, 
with few exceptions, cannot be cultivated advan¬ 
tageously in continued succession on the same soil. 
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. 
1 Tenth. , 
Buckwheat 
Carrots 
Potatoes 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Indian Corn or 
Carrots 
1 
1 ■ s 
Oats 
Clover 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Rye and Turnips 
Indian 
Corn or 
Carrots 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes, 
Peas, or 
Carrots 
Oats or Rye 
Clover 
Rye, or Bailey 
and Turnips 
Oats or Potatoes 
Indian 
Corn or 
Carrots 
Rye and 
Turnips ; 
Peas and 
Turnips 
Buckwheat 
Potatoes 
Oats 
Indian Corn or 
Carrots 
Indian 
Corn 
Rye 
Clover 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Oats or 
Buckwheat 
Potatoes 
Rye and Tur¬ 
nips 
Indian 
Corn 
Clover 
Carrots 
Rye and Turnips 
Indian 
Corn or 
Clover 
Clover 
Oats or 
Peas 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Buckwheat, 
Potatoes, or 
Carrots 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Oats 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Indian 
Corn 
Rye and Turnips 
Rye and Turnips 
Indian | 
Corn l 
II 
. - TABLE OF ROTATIONS FOR THE RICHEST KIND OF LIGHT SOIL. 
First Year. 
Second. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Seventh. 
Eighth. 
Ninth. 
Tenth. 
' 
Wheat 
or Indian 
Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Rye, Barley 
and Turnips 
Potatoes 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and Turnips 
Flax 
Clover 
| 
Flax, 
Clover, * 
or Car- ' 
rots 
Oats 
Rye, 
Carrots 
or Bar¬ 
ley and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Potatoes 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye, Barley 
and Turnips 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Oats 
Barley and Tur¬ 
nips, or Oats 
Flax or Carrots 
Flax 
Rye 
Clover 
Clover 
Barley 
and 
Turnips 
Rye or 
Carrots 
Potatoes 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Flax or Carrots 
Oats 
Clover 
*If. Clover is sown with the flax, it is cut in the second year, and another year is added to the rotation ; hut 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. 
Second. 
Third 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Seventh. 
Eighth. 
Ninth. 
Tenth. 
Oats 
Carrots or 
Barley and 
Turnips 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Wheat or In¬ 
dian Corn 
P«,ye and Tur¬ 
nips 
Flax 
Beans 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Rape or Car¬ 
rots 
Flax 
Clover 
Barley 
and 
Turnips 
Rape, Car¬ 
rots, or 
Beans 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Rye and Tur¬ 
nips, Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Oats or Flax. 
Rye or Barley 
and Turnips 
Flax 
Wheat 
or Indian 
Corn 
Barley 
Beans 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Potatoes 
Rape and Tur¬ 
nips 
Oats or Flax 
Flax - 
j 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Oats, Clo¬ 
ver, or Pota¬ 
toes 
Clover, 
Rape and 
Turnips 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Flax 
Rape and 
Tur¬ 
nips* 
Wheat 
or In¬ 
dian 
Corn 
Rye and 
Turnips 
Oats 
Clover 
Wheat or 
Indian Corn 
Rye, or Barley 
and Turnips 
Oats or Flax 
*Is is to te understood that "vvhgrSVer turnips are associated with any plant, they are to be sown in July, after harvest¬ 
ing the other crop. 
stow feebly, degenerate, or become more subject to I same ground ; and hence the rule which forms the 
diseases, when cultivated consecutively upon the | basis of a system of regular alternation of crops 
