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| 96 ROTATION OF CROPS. 
omitting one year of the pasture. 
of cropping are adapted to loamy lands, and | farmers some valuable improvements. 
it may be safely affirmed that no better are yet 
known.” 
An interesting table of rotations for a farm of | and that four cereal crops in seven years, espe- 
100 acres was proposed by Mr. Blaikie to the 
French government many years ago, and was 
published in the Gardener’s Magazine of 1830, 
and in the first volume of the Journal of the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England; and 
though tarnished with several objectionable points, 
it exhibits such a great number of crops, in such 
These courses | loam, that it cannot fail to suggest to reflecting 
quires a peculiar soil and a southern climate, 
cially when three of these are wheat, can no- 
where be profitably attempted in Britain except 
on the very finest land; and one of the special re- 
commendations is that, notwithstanding the great 
number and remarkable variety of its crops, each 
successive one, in general, is remedial and serves 
as an antidote to the exhausting or befouling ac- 
suitable succession, and all adapted to dry rich | tion of its predecessor. The table is as follows :— 
First Year. Second Year. Third Year. Fourth Year. Fifth Year. Sixth Year. Seventh Year. | 
Acres. Acres, Acres. Acres, Acres, Acres. Acres. 
| 
5 Turnips 10 Oats 10 Potatoes ) 
3 Cabbage 15 Clover 15 Wheat 3 Vetches | | 
30 Wheat 4 23 Carrots } 5 Barley (5 Turnips ) a ( 2 Beans \ 30 Wheat 
10 Potatoes ) a 10 Oats 
|"3 Vetches. || 15 Wheat | SEGRE 15 Clover | 
{| 2 Beans L 28 “ewe € J 5 Barley 
10 Potatoes 
15 Clover 15 Wheat Suvetches | (re Caps } 10 Oats ) 
2 Beans | | 25 Field beet } 5 Barl 15 Clover 
$| 30 Wheat 2ECarrots f acy, 
panuunips 10 Oats ) 10. Potatoes ( pelunnips 
5 Cabbages : 5 Cabbages 
2 mraralbent 15 Clover 3 Vetches 15 Wheat { 23 Field Dest 
23 Carrots 5 Barley | 2 Beans | 23 Carrots 
5 Turnips 
Ns 10 Potatoes ( R } 10 Oats 
10 Oats 15 Clover 15 Wheat 3 Vetches ) | 15 Wheat } 5 Cabbages 
5 Barley OeBeant | 22 iield on 5 Barley 
22 Carrots 
10 Potatoes } 5 Turnips \! 49 Oats | 10 Potatoes 
3 Vetches f 15 Wheat Ds Field beet} 15 Clover 15 Wheat 3 Vetches 
2 Beans | Beaenare } 5 Barley 2 Beans 
10 Lucern, which lasts seyen years, and is then ploughed down, and succeeded by wheat. 
Rotations on the poor kinds of clay soils which 
will not admit of the processes requisite for 
green fallow crops, must necessarily owe all their 
restorative influences to bare fallow and to grass, 
and are therefore much more limited and far less 
diversified than rotations for either good clays 
or any of the loams. A good one on the best 
kinds of such soils consists of 1. fallow, 2. wheat, 
3. grass seeds, to be either mown or pastured, 4. 
pasture, 5. pease, beans, or tares, and 6. oats; 
one, on a somewhat poorer class of the soils, con- 
sists of 1. fallow, 2. wheat or oats, 3. grass seeds, 
to be either mown or pastured, 4. pease, beans, 
or tares, and 5. oats; another, on a similar class 
of soils as the preceding, consists of 1. fallow, 2 
wheat or oats, 3. grass seeds, 4. pasture, and 5, 
oats, pease, beans, or tares; and one on high- 
lying lands which are unsuitable for pulse or 
tares, consists of 1. fallow, 2. oats or barley, 3 
grass seeds, 4. and 5. pasture, and 6. oats. A 
good rotation on the better sort of poor clay soils 
which have just been pared and burned, consists 
of 1. cole, rape, or turnip, 2. wheat or oats, 3. tares 
or grass seeds, 4. pease or beans, 5. oats, 6. fal- 
low, 7. wheat, with grass seeds, and 8. a number 
of years of pasture; and a good one for the in- 
ferior sort of poor clay soils which have just been 
pared and burned, consists of 1. cole or rape, 2 
oats, 3, pease, beans, or tares, 4. oats or wheat, 
Two of 
the main objections to it are that lucern re- 
with grass seeds, and 5. a number of years of 
pasture,—or, in some instances, cole and oats 
may be repeated in respectively the fifth and the 
sixth years, and the pastures commence in the 
seventh. 
Rotations on light, poor soils of sand, chalk, 
gravel, and inferior loam, must be greatly con- 
trolled by the specific character of the land, by 
the nature of the situation, and by the local de- 
mands of the farm; and, in many instances, can- 
not profitably comprise either the cereal grasses 
or the large root crops, and need to be restricted 
to herbaceous and leguminous forage crops and to 
pasture grasses for the feeding of sheep. <A good 
one on very poor loams consists of 1. turnips, 2 
barley, with clover and grass seeds, 3. mown 
clover, 4. pasture, and 5. oats,—or 5. pasture, and 
6. oats, pease, or tares; one for dry sandy soils con- 
sists of 1. turnips manured and eaten off, 2. bar- 
ley or oats, with grass seeds, 3. 4. and 5. pasture 
for sheep, and 6, rye or oats; one for the better | | 
sort of sands, gravels, or chalk, consists of 1. tur- | 
nips, 2. barley, 3. winter tares, eaten off, 4. rape, | 
eaten off, 5. spring vetches, eaten off, and 6. rye | 
grown to seed; another for the same kind of | 
soils as the preceding consists of 1. turnips, 2. 
spring vetches, 3. rye, grown to seed, 4. winter 
tares, 5, rape, and 6. barley ; one for the inferior 
sort of sands, gravels, or chalk, consists of 1. tur- 
