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ROTATION OF CROPS. 
and cleaned his share, he would be sure, enclosed or 
not, of a better lot. I have no doubt but the common 
fields, under good management, by which I mean 
clean fallows and proper drainage, would be greatly 
more productive. 
Mr. Lucas, of Hanbury, complains much of the 
ruinous system of keeping land, that is enclosed land, 
in constant tillage, without any intermediate rest by 
pasturing ; and observes, that instead of 10 or 12 acres 
in a hundred, 45 or 50 acres in a hundred should be at 
pasture, which being grazed for two or three years 
would acquire fresh nutriment from the dung of sheep 
and other animals: he names the following course as 
common in his neighbourhood upon the heavy soils. 
1. Fallow. 
2. Wheat. 
3. Beans. 
4. Barley. 
5. Clover mown, sometimes a second time for seed. 
6. Wheat, on the clover lay. 
This is certainly hard tillage, and such as no ordinary 
land can support without extra assistance from manure. 
Mr. Lucas observes, that it is weakly urged in favour 
of perpetual tillage, that the clover never makes it 
appearance after the first year, but dies away and dis¬ 
appears. This, he acknowledges, is not unfrequently 
the case, when it is sown on the third or fourth crop 
from the fallow, choaked up with weeds on an impo¬ 
verished soil; but would not be the case if the land 
were fallowed and manured for a spring crop, as bar¬ 
ley, and seeded down and pastured for two or three 
years. 
As seed clover is a good deal grown in this country, 
and as it is an article of necessity, it might not be right 
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