Excerpt from On the Nature and Property of Soils Their Connexion With the Geological Formation on Which They Rest, the Best Means of Permanently Increasing Their Productiveness, and on the Rent and Profits of Agriculture System OF culture. - Equal distribution Of Labour best Mode of cultivating Arable Land - alternate system recommended - its utility and profit - Green food, how to be consumed Weeds to be eradicated - feel culture sooner than Crops, and why - Green Crops, their advantage Culture must be adapted to soil-effects of Frost - Crops best fitted for various Soils - Plants nourished in two ways - Effect of these on Soil - Crops when allowed to seed impoverish Soil - inference drawn - Corn kept in straw a loss - what necessary, besided proper cropping, to ensure success. Course OF crops. - Philosophy of a rotation - four-field course - the merits of it - by what to be regulated - chief value Of rotation-what indispensably requisite - what rotation suited to Clay, and what to friable Soil - its advantages - Folding of Sheep of great benefit on light Soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.