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foul by their culture, and no person would think of 
fallowing such land in any other way, but the culture 
for turnips being the same, or similar, both in process 
and manure, as that upon a dead summer fallow; it is 
generally considered as, and called a turnip fallow. 
On strong clay land fallowing for barley is more 
prevalent, as will be shown in the next article on the 
rotation of crops. 
f ‘ In the common fields our custom or usage, time 
immemorial, has been three crops and a fallow; during 
the tallow year, the lands are a common pasture for 
sheep.”— Mr. Darke. 
Mr. Pomeroy says, “ the plough is generally ob¬ 
served on the fallows after rain, when the land is said 
to work well; and afterwards observes that one plough¬ 
ing in dry weather is of more service than all that can 
be done in wet, and this, in most countries, would hold 
good; but I have been informed that in the Vale of 
Evesham, it has long been an established maxim, 
founded on experience, that fallows work kindly in 
wet weather ; and in the case of ploughing wheat 
under furrow, it is reckoned no unkindly symptom to 
see the water follow the plough down the furrow. 
As the use of fallowing is to destroy all kind of 
weeds, and clean the land, and as a whole season is 
lost, by the land being made unproductive for that 
purpose, what an infatuation it must be to defeat 
the purpose intended, by neglecting the fallows, and 
which, I am sorry to observe, is but too often the case ; 
instead of early ploughing and harrowing toi destroy 
the growth, the fallow is too often suffered to run to 
grass and weeds, which get to such a head as not 
afterwards to be destroyed, and the whole has the ap¬ 
pearance of a slovenly and neglected sheep pasture, 
instead! 
