•iSoj. Improvements carrying on at Ca'ithnefs in i8o2. 83 



a fuflicient quantity of afhes is fpread on the ground where 

 they are fown •, and it is probable that lime, and other ma- 

 nures, may raife that valuable crop on peaty foil. 4. It 

 is defirable to cultivate, oats having only one pickle, in- 

 ftead of two or three. * The grain is plumper, ripens ear- 

 lier, and is much lefs liable to fliake : the fample, alfo, 

 is more equal, and, confequently, muiL fetch a better price 

 at market. 5. An acre of mofs land, after being pared and 

 burnt, was fown, on the 30th of May, with grafs-feeds a- 

 lone, (red clover, rye-grafs, with a fmall mixture of other 

 grafles), and on the 30th of September it was fit to mow. 

 The plan of laying down land, even in good heart, to grafs, 

 without a crop of grain, cannot be too ftrongly recom- 

 mended ; but it would feem to be a fyftem peculiarly well 

 adapted for new lands. 6. It would appear, that the north- 

 ern parts of Scotland produce peat, the afhes of which is 

 equal in quality to the Berkfliire, when burnt by the fame 

 procefs. 7. Chicory is likely to prove a valuable addition 

 to Britlfh herbage. 



13. Some Extenfive Improvements have been recently made in 



this county by Draining^ in particular at the loch of Duren, 

 where a great tra£l of valuable land, and an inexhauftible 

 quantity of the richeft marl, have been fecured by two fpi- 

 rited proprietors, at a very moderate expence. Similar ufe- 

 ful undertakings have alfo been carried on at the dam of 

 Achingils, and the mofs of Wydell. 



14. Avarlety of other means of improvement are in contemplation. 



Regular try (Is, for the fale of cattle, are to be eftablifhed. 

 Inns, where ftill wanting, are to be built, partly on the prin- 

 ciples of a tontine, and partly on the plan, that the freehold- 

 ers, and other proprietors of the cour^ty, fliall each fubfcribe 

 a certain fum annually, towards paying the rent of an at- 

 tentive innkeeper, till it appears that the profits of his bufi- 

 nefs will enable him to go on without that afiiftance. An 

 application is made to the Poft-Office to have a daily poft 

 eftabliflied, inftead of the prefent mode of only three times 



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* The barley corn oat has in general many fpecimens of this fort of 



j![Tain with one pickle. It 13 alfo mentioned in Mr Lowe's Agricultural 



Survey of Nottinghamfhire, p. 23. * Oats are pkhi by hand ly curious 



perfont for feed. If the top one is a f.ngk oat^ the rejl on that Jlem <will be 



fa ; the double ones are rejeded. * 



