For remarks,&c. ever been considered, as one of the first schools for agriculture; and simply consists of alternate crops, for man and beast, of an

exhausting, and meliorating quality. Thus,

1st.- 3 Wheat. 2d. 3— Turnips. 3d.— Barley. 4th.—— Clover.

As an improvement to this short system, vetches may be har- rowed in the wheat stubbles, directly after harvest, for spring feed; and turnips thrown on the barley stubbles, where the land is not so tender, as to risk an injury to the grasses, by the tread- ing of cattle. In short, wherever this last method can be done,

— it is one of the best modes of husbandry, now in practice; be- cause, the turnips often go twice as far as they would, if fed on the land where they grow; and by being strewed thinly before cattle on the clover lay, will often add, by the manure the cattle bestow on it, more than an additional load of hay to an acre, and leave the land in a most capital state, for wheat the ensuing autumn. Ishould add, that my recommendation, of having the turnips thinly strewed, is to avoid the land being too much trodden, in particular spots, at one time: but the same piece should be strewed over, two or three times, to give it an effectual dressing.

There are, no doubt, many situations, where feeding off turnips, or suffering cattle to go on barley stubbles, would in their present state, be utter ruin to the stock, and injure the land very much. If it is impossible, by draining, to render such land quite sound; still Iam of opinion, that by keeping in some measure to the spirit of the foregoing rotation of crops, and planting cabbages, or potatoes in licu of turnips, the farmer would find a greater ad- — vantage, than by suffering his land to lie fallow; which causes,

in the following summer, a sharp contest between him and the weeds that have risen up in evidence, against his idleness, or mismanagement.

Thave observed in Leicestershire, and other parts of England, a mode of feeding cattle, on'ground that is too wet, and tender to

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