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it is not neceſſary now to enguire, becauſe, with all due deference to the general practice and opinion of a whole county, it is preſumed that a mode of huſbandry and a fucceflion of crops may be pointed out, which upon trial would be found far more profitable than thoſe at preſent followed.

The uniting what may be called the Clover and the Turnip Huſbandry is the beſt method hitherto diſcovered of keeping dry lands in a fate of continual fertility, and for this the light and friable ſoil of the vailies of Weſt- moreland is well calculated. Inſtead of the common ro- tation of oats, barley, and oats again, and then leaving the land to grals over of itſelf, the following courſe of crops might be introduced with advantage, both to the public and the individual, When an old cloſe of good land is broken up it ſhould be ſown with oats, as is done at preſent; after the oats it ſhould be manured and ſown with turnips in drills thirty inches aſunder, ſo as to admit of being horſe-hoed; next with barley or oats, and always with graſs ſeeds at the rate of about fixteen pounds of clover, and a Wincheſter buſhel of rye-graſs to the ſtatute acre. If it is intended to paſture the field, the graſs ſeeds can hardly be ſown too thick; if it is to be made into hay, the quantity of ſeeds above-mentioned will be found am- ply ſufficient. The firſt year's crop of graſs may be mown twice, or after the fr cutting it may be eaten by fattening cattle; or it may be eaten by ſheep till the be- ginning of June, ſaved after that and mown in Auguſt, and it will ſtill produce a valuable crop of foggage or af- ter-math, It ſhould be depaſtured with cattle or ſheep the ſecond year, and the third year likewiſe, if ic ſhall be thought proper to keep the eld ſo long in grafs.

‘This courſe would preſerve the land in a ftate of per- petual Zealth and vigour, did it not, taking pleafure in va« riety, diſlike a too freguent repetition of the ſame crops,

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