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ROTATION OF CROPS. 
or more profitable than the following, which is often 
practised, but the land should be clean to begin. 
1 . A vetch, or potatoe crop ; if vetches, to be sown in 
September, the true winter vetch; after Midsummer, as 
the land is cleared of the vetches, to be ploughed up 
so as to make a partial fallow ; unless the land be in 
good heart it should be manured for the vetches; if po¬ 
tatoes be planted, they should be kept very clean. 
2. Year wheat. 3. Turnips, upon a complete turnip 
fallow. 4. Barley with seeds, and then at grass so 
long as may be thought proper or necessary. 
Upon stronger soils vetches may begin as before, if 
the land be clean and in good heart; 2. wheat; 3. fal¬ 
low; 4. barley, -with seeds, and then at grass as before. 
But if land be foul with couch or weeds, it should 
begin with a fallow. Mr. C. advises in such cases, and 
the land being poor, to fallow for grass seeds only, and 
to sow them in August, which he knows by experience 
will answer, and restore the fertility of the soil by 
giving it rest at pasture; but I think a fallow should 
always be succeeded by some crop, even rye is betfer 
than nothing, and, if the land be very poor, an exertion, 
should be made for manure ora top dressing. 
In Sedgbury common field, the course is : 1. Fal¬ 
low ; 2. barley; 3. beans, or other pulse, or clover ; 
4. wheat. 
In Bilhampton, and some other common fields that 
lie wide from manure, the course is crop and fallow- 
manured only by folding sheep; it would certainly be 
an improvement to introduce clover, thus, 1 . fallow 
folded; 2. wheat; 3. clover; 4. fallow folded ; 5. bar¬ 
ley ; 6. clover, or vetches ; and then fallow again. 
Mr. Knight , Wolverley, intends the following course 
of crops upon his sandy loam, so soon as he can get 
his 
