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targe towns, the muck ought to be laid on the clover stubble,immediately before the ground is seed furrowed.

It has been already stated, when discussing the systems or ro«tations proper for different descriptions of soil, that no absoluterules can be laid down, a priori, for regulating the fundamentalseries of husbandry operations, beyond the general principleof alternation ; and that every husbandman must adapt theparticular steps according to circumstances, from his ownjudgment and experience, as connected with the nature of hissoil and situation, and a variety of concomitant considerations.When the soil is fallowed, every fourth year, or under the fol-lowing rotation: 1. Fallow ; 2. Wheat; 3. Beans; 4. Wheat—two crops of wheat, and one of beans, are procured from oncemanuring. In this course some husbandmen apply the muck tothe fallow for the first crop of wheat; while others prefer lay-ing it on the stubble of the first crop of wheat for beans, inwhich way the second wheat crop is effectually secured. Again,when land is fallowed every sixth year, the foregoing course ofcrops is extended to, 5. Beans; 6. Wheat. In this six-shillcourse, a second dunging is laid upon the stubble of the wheatcrop of the fourth year. If extended two years farther to a ro-tation of eight—7. Beans; 8. Wheat—muck is again laid uponthe wheat stubble of the sixth year. In the four course shiftof the above rotations, two crops of wheat and one of beans areprocured by once dunging; in the rotation of six, three crops ofwheat and two of beans are procured by manuring twice inthe rotation of eight, three applications of dung are requiredfor four crops of wheat and three of beans. In the two lat-ter rotations, it is hardly possible to go on with success, un-less • adventitious manure can be abundantly procured; be-cause if such frequent applications of muck arc taken from,the home resources, other fields will necessarily be deprivedof their due proportion of that necessary article. Even dung-log once in four years, is fully as much as most farms can af-ford, unless great attention is given to the collection of ma-vol. i. 2 F

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