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Ploughs, contributes to the success of this practice, by furnishing every other Crop with fresh food and a new Soil, which when assisted with proper dressing and an intermediate feeding Crop, will he thinks prove successful in taking Siberian Wheat many times successively off the same land.

He thinks fallows necessary for strong Soils, as the clods of earth cannot be well broken to pieces without laying sometimes exposed to the Air, but would in general reject this practice on light Soils as feeding Crops are better, from the Cattle which consuming the Crop, treading the Soil, and rendering it more compact and firm, which a light Soil requires. He would not let the ground lay any longer idle than while preparing for the feeding Crop. This enables the Farmer to keep a larger stock of Cattle, which encreases his quantity of Manure.

Many soils may be improved by Winter fallows, this may be practiced by ploughing immediately after the Grain Crop is off, in a dry Season, and by being well Water furrowed during the Winter and proper dressings in the Spring; but he does not think this method equal to a feeding Crop of Rye, Turnips, or Tares. catchword The /catchword