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introduction of vetches, and buck-wheat, would not improve their system, by varying the course, now and then, in order to keep the same crops, from coming too near each other. The frequent repetition of the same crop, is rejected by land, though in ever such good heart, and thus we often see, on the best of soils, weak crops, and sometimes a failure; which has no visible cause for its happening. I therefore recommend, that instead of barley after wheat, buck-wheat be sometimes taken; it is a crop neither impoverishing nor unprofitable; and after harvest, if it is got up soon, vetches may be sown on the same piece for spring feed. The land would then come in excellent condition for a turnip crop; and the barley, after such treatment, would amply repay the farmer, for the seeming loss he sustains, in the omission of his barley crop, after wheat. I call it a seeming loss, since in fact nothing is lost by adopting this change; as in an arable country, where there are good markets, and a spirit exists, for fattening cattle, and sheep, green crops are now considered, and certainly are, when all benefits are reckoned, as profitable to the Agriculturist, as any corn crops he can grow.

I am persuaded, a seven shift course, would be more productive on the light, and shallow Soils, of Berkshire, where the land is not in common field, than their present six-shift course; particularl)y where a farm is cramped for want of downs orsainfoin. The rota- tion of crops Ishould propose, in these situations, would be nearly as follows. 1st. Wheat, 2d. vetches, 3d. barley, 4th. buck-wheat, sth. turnips, 6th. barley, 7th. clover. This succession, considering the buck-wheat, as it always should be, a neutral crop, is certainly the best system of husbandry, thiat can be followed on light land. But, independant of this, it is proved by experience, in the turnip countries, that the more distant that crop is kept, not only from repetition, but from the clovers, the greater likelihood there is, for its success: and when it is considered what an uncertain and expensive crop, turnips are, to obtain in perfection, any observa- tion, that tends to remedy the hazards attending it, deserves at least some little consideration.

There is also another advantage in this mode of cropping, that

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