l3o4. On a Suitable Rotation of Cr<>J>/. ^^^ 



ing over it the earth dug out, and likewife laying it up with the 

 plough ; whereby thofe parts farthelt from the drain, being 

 more elevated, will be rendered thereby more dry ; and thofe 

 parts lext to it, will be likewife kept dry, by the free and ready 

 conveyance that the water finds from the tleld. There arc 

 feveral very valuable fields in the farm above mentioned, and 

 in the vicinity of it, that would eafily admit of the experiment, 

 and I am perfuaded with fuccefs. 



Should you deem this worthy of infertion, I Ihnll at lead hope 

 that it will either provoke a juft and fatisfactory criticifm, or be 

 the means of procuring from feme of your mbre intelligent cor- 

 refpondents a preferable plan. I am. Sir, your moit humble 

 fervant, J, C. 



Dtwjfries, May ^thy 1 803. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER's MAGAZINE. 



On a Suitable Rotation of Crops. 

 Sir, 



I BEG leave to offer, for infertion In your Magazine, fome 

 defultory thoughts on the rotation of crops. 



A fultable rotation of crops is unqueftionably a very Important 

 part of hufbandry \ and though an adequate knowledge concerning 

 it be feemingly of very eafy attainment, yet, in facSt, no fmalt de- 

 gree of judgment and experience is neceilary, fo to arrange the 

 fyftem of cropping, and to adapt it to the varieties of foil and 

 climate, that the greatell poifible produce may be obtained. It is, 

 indeed, a very cafy matter to follow a courle of alternate white 

 and green crops •, but very little obiervatlon will ferve to convince 

 one, that this general rule may be very llri£lly obferved, and yet 

 the fyftem of cropping pra(fl:ifed mwy be very defedVive. In- 

 deed, fo prominent a place does the judicious arrangement of 

 crops polfcfs in the agricultural art, that I cannot think of any 

 better criterion for ellimating the merits of a farmer, than the 

 courfe of cropping he has adopted. It has therefore occurred to 

 me, that oecaiional difquifitions on this fubje(£l may not unufe- 

 fully occupy a place in your widely diffufed Magazine. I have 

 fometlmes amufed mylelf with calculating the probable value of 

 proiiucc from the crops of different rotations, in order to find out 

 the moll profitable amongfl them ; but Ihall not trouble you with 

 thefe calculations at prtlait. *NJy intention, at this time, is to 



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