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from the pit. The efFe£ls of marl are obferved to be, not im- 

 mediate, but lading : crops from marl are a fortnight later in 

 ripening than thofe from lime, and the grain of Icfs weight by 

 I-ioth, in equal meafure. 



Lime is rather preferred even to fhell marl, its quicker ope- 

 ration fuiting better with the fhort tenure of a tenant's poflef- 

 fion. It is applied at the rate of fix carts to the acre, in light 

 foils; and of eight, ten, or fometimes fixteen, in clay foils. 



Fallow, with marl or lime, either with or without dung ; 

 and either complete, or with a green crop, is the fundamental 

 dreffing, depended upon^ to fecure the fubfequent crops, in the 

 courfe of rotation, upon the arable lands. Entire fallow is ufed 

 upon clay, which is a foil unfit for turnip crops. The mofl ap- 

 proved fucceflion by which this is followed, is — ift, wheat ; 2d, 

 peas ; 3d, barley, with grafles •, 4th, hay, cut, or fometimes 

 paftured by fheep ; 5th, oats: — or by, ift, wheat j 2d, peas; 

 3d, barley with clover; 4th, two or three years paflure ; 5th, 

 oats. We were rather furprifed to find no mention of drilled 

 beans in the rotations upon clay foil. 



On light lands, turnip is ufed as the general fallow crop ; 

 followed by, ift, barley with grafTes ; 2d, hay; 3d, oats ; 4th, 

 peas; 5th, barley, with pafture grailes ; 6th, pafture lor feve- 

 ral years ; 7th, oats : — or by, ift, barley with grafles ; 2d, hay ; 

 3d, two years pafture ; 4th, oats. Thefe are fome of the moft 

 approved rotations ; though many others are pradiifed. An ex- 

 tended rotation, from the original dreffing, enables the farmer 

 to go over the greater proportion of the land in his farm. 



We are forry to find the Ruta-baga had begun to be lefs va- 

 lued, as we know not of a vegetable better calculated to make 

 winter and fummer fucculent feeding meet each other. 



The average returns of grain per acre, are ftatcd by the Rox- 

 burgh boll, which contains five firlots Linlithgow meafure, and 

 a trifle more, viz. wheat four bolls, barley four and a half, 

 oats four and a fourth, peas two and three fourths. We con- 

 ceive this to be a fmall return ; but prefume the feed is kept 

 out, and the difpofable produce only given. The number of 

 acres under oats are ftated at 41,008, barley 16,404, vi^heat 9842, 

 peas 6562. 



The fize of arable farms runs from 150 to 500 acres, and 

 from lool. to 4001. of rent. From 800 to 3000 acres is the ge- 

 neral fize of flieep farms ; but one farmer has often two or three 

 of fuch farms in his poflefiion. 



Our author's ideas refpeding tithes are very liberal for a 

 clergyman, the generality of that profefiion entertaining a han- 

 kering defire after the flefti pots of Egypt. He fays, 



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