ROTATION OF CROPS. 
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But part of the land is generally in this course, 
1. Fallow. 
2. Barley. 
3. Beans, or pease, or vetches, according to the 
soil, or necessity for green crops. The eating of vetches 
upon the land is of infinite service to the following 
crop:— 
4. Wheat. The custom is, in this system of hus¬ 
bandry, to manure well on that part of the barley stub¬ 
ble intended for beans and pease, ploughing in such 
manure. 
Wheat, beans, barley, pease, oats, and vetches, the 
latter principally for green food, are the crops in gene¬ 
ral raised. 
The unenclosed lands, which are but a small propor¬ 
tion of the whole, are cultivated according to ancient 
custom, one system is crop and fallow; that is wheat 
every other }-ear. This system prevails only on poor 
land which lies a great way from the fold j-ard, so as to 
get no other assistance except sheep penning. Ano¬ 
ther custom is, 
1. Fallow. 
2. Wheat. 
3. Beans, mostly practised on strong heavy lands, 
but the most general practice is, 
1. Fallow. 
2. Barley. 
3. Beans, pease, vetches, or red clover. 
4. Wheat. 
But upon all lands that will bear treading with sheep, 
turnips are cultivated in great perfection, and have 
much improved light lands; and clover answers weil 
upon all soils that are not very poor. 
I never yet saw a farm of strong land, clean and in 
good 
