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White wheat upon pease-etch doth grow as he would,
But fallow is best if we did as we should.
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When peason ye had and a fallow thereon,
Sow wheat ye may well without dung thereupon.[569]
Tilth-grain sown on the fallow.
'Etch-grain' is therefore the crop, generally oats or beans, sown in spring after ploughing the stubble of the wheat crop, which itself was best sown if possible upon the fallow, and so was called the 'tilth-grain.'
Breach-corn.
The oats or beans grown on the wheat stubble were sometimes called 'Breach-corn,' and Breach-land was land prepared for a second crop.[570] [p378]