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After ſome rounds it will be proper to encreaſe the quan tity of clover ſeed, and at laſt to bring it ſeldomer into ſucceſlicn, for if too often ſown it will be reje(ted entire- I. When this is apprehended the courſe may be varied or lengthened by the introdudtion of a crop ot peaſe, or of drilled beans where the land is deep and moiſt, and wheat

- after either of theſe, or after a clean Summer- fallow, or

by leaving the land ſome years longer in grads than uſual.

When it ſhall be proved and Known that potatoes are a cheap and nouriſhing food for horſes, the demand for that valuable root will become nearly as unbounded as that for turnips is; and even although they exhauſt the land, they may then be introduced into the courſe with much advantage to the farmer»

It is not pretended that the rotation of crops here re- commended would ſuit all the arable lands of Weftmore-

land; but it is believed that, on a very large proportion of

them, it might be followed with a certainty of ſucceſs,

The cold, wet, fſtiff-ſoils ſhould be Summer-fallowed in- ſtead of being cropped with turnips; wheat ſhould be ſown after the fallow, and clover, or oats, and then clo- ver after the wheat; but it is impoſlible, and were it poſſible it would be improper, in a work of this general nature, to mention how all the varieties of ſoil ſhould be treated; and to deſcend to the minutiæ of ploughing and ſowing, and ten thouſand little matters thât continually de- mand the farmer’s attention, and that are always varying with the weather. In theſe his own ingenuity muſt afliſt him, and there all his ingenuity will be neceflary; for his art, though apparently eaſy, is attended with a thouſand difficulties,

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