ROTATION OF CROPS. 
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On all light and weak lands, Mr. C. is strongly of 
opinion, that grain should never be sown upon one 
ploughing of grass land, which he says always tends to 
foul the land and fill it with couch, but the course 
should be thus: 
1. Plough up in August, and sow rye 2 bushels per 
acre, and vetches half a bushel per acre; this will be 
ready for ewes and lambs in April, stock hard and eat 
it down against the clover and ray grass is ready for 
the sheep ; then plough and work the land well for 
turnips, manuring with muck, or lime, or both, then 
sow turnips: this the first year. 
2. Autumn Avheat may be sown on the turnip ground 
first eaten off; spring wheat in March upon such land 
as is then ready, and barley upon the remainder, with 
seeds upon the whole, red and white clover, trefoil, 
and rye grass ; suppose half the land sown with wheat, 
and half with barley. 
3. 4, and 5 , years to August, sheep pasture, which 
completes the routine, and then begin again as before. 
Mr. C. savs, that land thus treated and well managed, 
will never tire or become foul. 
In this course, upon 100 acres arable there would be 
10 acres of wheat, 10 acres of barley, 20 acres of tur¬ 
nips, 20 acres of rye and vetches for spring feed half a 
year only, and 40 acres the whole year, and 20 acres 
more to August for sheep pasture. 
I objected to this as giving too small a proportion of 
grain, and particularly of wheat, so necessary to the 
support of mankind, and proposed thus alternately after 
five years as before ; 6 wheat at one ploughing on the 
turf; 7 turnips on a complete fallow ; 8 barley, with 
seeds ; and 9, 10, sheep and pasture; and then begin 
with rye and vetches as before. 
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