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ROTATION OF CROPS. 
I observed clover in wheat stubbles several times, and 
believe the course here to have been, 
1. Turnips, early eaten off. 
2. Wheat, with clover sown on it in the spring. 
3. Clover. 
Mr. Pomeroy says, u except in the common fields, 
no particular rotation of crops prevails.” 
Mr. Oldacre, ofFladbury, describes the following as 
a common course of crops in his neighbourhood, where 
the land is in good condition, and too strong for 
turnips. 
1. Plough with the turf plough, and set beans or 
pease. 
2. Wheat, at one or more ploughings. 
S. Fallow. 
4. Barley, with grass seeds, viz. red and white clover 
and trefoil, five pound each to an acre, with about 
two pecks of ray grass; the latter I had myself given 
up till I found I was wrong. This is the practice on 
enclosed farms, where there is but a small proportion 
of meadow or old pasture, and it is usual to let the 
land lay as long as it will graze well, which will gene¬ 
rally be for two or three years. 
But where a farm has a sufficient quantity of mea¬ 
dow and old pasture land, the tillage is generally- 
divided into four equal parts: 
]. Fallow. 
2. Barley. 
3. Red clover without any mixture. 
4. Wheat. 
In this case the red clover is used principally for 
tyling off with horses upon the land ; or carrying 
green to the stable ; the first practice is a most excel¬ 
lent preparation for wheat upon clay lands. 
But 
