ROTATION OF CROPS. 
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In this course 100 acres, on the average would have 
15 acres of wheat, 15 barley, 20 turnips, 20 rye, and 
vetches half the year, and the rest sheep pasture ; but 
Mr. C. objects to this, and maintains that the course 
he proposes will be both better for light land, and 
more profitable. 
On the Lechmore estates, in the parish of Hanley, 
west of the Severn, upon strong or mixed loam, the 
following course is common : 
1. Grass land ploughed, and beans set, or drilled; 
rye for sheep pasture sown immediately after harvesting 
the beans. 
2. The rye grazed in April or May, then fallowed 
for wheat, and wheat sown in autumn. Lime freely 
used. 
3. Wheat, with clover and grass seeds sown in 
spring. 
Or where the land is somewhat milder thus: 
2. Turnips, part common and part Swedish, the 
common turnips drawn early for stall feeding, and 
wheat sown; the Swedish kept on later, and fallowed 
by barley, making tin is, 
3. Part wheat, part barley, with clover and grass 
seeds sown on the whole in the spring, or sometimes, 
2 winter vetches, succeeded by 3 wheat, and seeds in 
the spring. 
Mr. Lechmore has this autumn, 1807, a piece of 
wheat of 8 acres, drilled in at about 7 inch rows, by 
one of the Worcestershire drill machines; the prepara¬ 
tion was fallow; bushel of seed used per acre; <i\ 
bushels are sown broad cast, the crop is meant to be well 
hand hoed m spring. On good sound loams, light 
enough for turnips, no course can be more productive, 
or 
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