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visited by me, is in general a rich friable loam, 

 or a rich vegetable mould, in both cases such 

 as, in Scotland, would be deemed peculiarly 

 adapted for green crops of all descriptions. 



On such land, therefore, may successfully 

 be followed a system of convertible husbandry, 

 based on a rotation which an experienced far- 

 mer will have no difficulty in adapting to his 

 peculiar soil, and so arranged that the severity 

 of grain crops may be modified or counteracted 

 by the alternation of grass and green crops in 

 their proper order. Under such a system the 

 soil would be nourished and supported, by ma- 

 nure used for the green crops, and the green 

 crops, such as turnips, potatoes, mangel-wurzel, 

 would be consumed in winter by stock proper- 

 ly foddered and littered, and thus manure in 

 sufficient quantity, would every year be manu- 

 factured the land would be kept in good 

 tilth stock of greater value would be reared 

 and upon the whole, the receipts of the far- 

 mer would be encreased in amount with little 

 or no additional outlay. 



