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32] strikes me as an improvement, namely,— By having clover lay only one year. We generally see(except on deep rich land) the se- cond year's clover lays, weak and sickly; and as another green crop more likely to be vigorous, is substituted in the place, of the second year's lay: I believe that more stock could be kept on light land, by thus introducing the vetches, than can now be done, from the present system of six shifts.

On those open parts of the downs, where the sandy soil pre- dominates, the sowing of rye, to be fed off(where wheat will not succeed) would, in my opinion, insure much better crops of tur- nips, than what are generally seen on this bleak part of the county. The advantages resulting from this method, would be, Increase of food,— An increase of stock,— And consequently an in- crease of manure; by dint of vhich only, the farmer depends on a crop of grain here. His expence and trouble would be incon- siderable, in adopting this practice; inasmuch, as the land would only be broke up in the autumn, instead of the spring; and in re- turn for which, he gets much sheep-feed, and dresses the land well for that crop, which, above all others, ought to have plenty of manure buried with the seed.

The strong rich loamy Soil, in the Vale of White Horse, has long been celebrated for its fecundity; and unlike most other countries, where nature has been bou ntiful, the inhabitants are, in general, active and industrious. They, however, still incline, in those parishes, that have of late been inclosed, to the old com- mon field mode, of taking three crops in succession(for I caunot agree with them, that beans should be considered a neutral crop). Their land is certainly extremely good, and would not be affected by a little deviation, from the line of rectitude; but a continual round of corn crops, sometimes four, in five years, must deprive the land of that spirit, and vegetative quality, which a little more variety in change of crops, would render permanently productive.

The method followed in the Isle of Sheppy, and the Flegg and Blofield hundreds of Norfolk, is very suitable to this part of Berkshire; and in the latter place, is a copy of that high state of

agriculture, practised in the Austrian Netherlands, which has