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CROPS. 
ram) the variety grown here is slightly bearded, though 
I am informed there is a variety of smooth eared 
wheat that will succeed and ripen well, spring sown. 
The preparation in the common fields is generally 
fallow, but wheat is sometimes sown there after clover, 
or pulse, (i. e.j beans, pease, or vetches. In the enclo¬ 
sures, fallows for wheat are made upon cold strong 
land, and if such land be in a foul, couchy, and un¬ 
ameliorated state, such fallow is necessary ; and wheat 
cannot be grown thereon to advantage in any other 
way. A fallow for wheat ought to be ploughed up in au¬ 
tumn, or in the winter months, cross ploughed in May, 
and well harrowed down, manured in June with lime 
4 to 6 tons per acre, or muck 10 tons per acre, or both. 
It should be drawn up into lands in July, in which 
state it may lay through the harvest, w'hen it should be 
again ploughed and harrowed in September, and in 
October may be sown with wheat under furrow. If 
these operations are regularly and well performed, the 
land will be in so meliorated a state, as not to require 
fallowing again for many years. 
Wheat is also sown upon one ploughing up of a 
clover or other lay, or upon one or more ploughings 
of oat or pea stubbles, also very often after a crop of 
vetches eaten off by tying horses or carted to the sta¬ 
ble, or gathered for seed ; in the former cases there is 
time to make a partial fallow ; also upon one ploughing 
up of a bean stubble, or after potatoes, or turnips eaten 
off, in the latter case spring wheat will succeed well to 
the end of March. The state of the soil, as to ameliora¬ 
tion, must determine whether it be fit for the drill, or 
must be sown broad cast. 
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