The modern family receipt book. Containing a great variety of valuable receipts arranged under their respective heads, connected with the art of social and domestic life, including many valuable original communications the result of long experience / by Mrs. Mary Holland.

  • Holland, Mary.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The modern family receipt book. Containing a great variety of valuable receipts arranged under their respective heads, connected with the art of social and domestic life, including many valuable original communications the result of long experience / by Mrs. Mary Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CT ee _ AGRICULTURE, founded on the following principles, namely ; 1. To fallow, and at the same time to have a shading and ameliorating mild crop growing on the fallow, while it is under the plough or hoe; 2. Never to sow any species of corn in succession ; 3. To sow clover, or an equivalent on every field of small grain; and lastly, by means of a course v well selected crops, to prevent the soil from resting, harden- ine, aud running into weeds. By this method, entire farms are continued in a constant rotation under four, six, or eight divisions, or fields, in such a manner as to improve the soil, and consequently to pro- duce a larger income. No. II. Acres. Bushels. 60 barley - - - - 1200 60 clover - - - 60 wheat - - - 900 60 clover ~ - - 60 peas, or beans - - ° 900 oom —— eee 3000 300 acres, in 5 fields. According to this new course, the wheat and barley ex- haust the soil, while the clover and peas, or beans, ame- liorate and improve it. When we compare these two systems of rotations of crops, the latter is evidently the most profitable, as the 120) acres in clover are far superior to the 150 acres of common grasses on the hide-bound soil of the lay, or old field; and the grain and straw are more advantageous, in the propor- tion of 300 to 185. Clover, peas, and beans (if sown in drills, and kept clean from weeds by hoeing), are inoffen- sive, and even ameliorating.—They all shade the ground during the hottest season of the year. Every kind of corn impoverishes the soil, and, if small, lets in weeds, which, together with rest, bind and foul the land.