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and lime. I was informed by Mr Foulis at 

 Irvine, that there are not one thoufand bolls 

 of wheat produced in all the {hire of Ayr. 

 Whereas, were they to take proper methods 

 of cropping, having a regular rotation, with 

 a fallow, in a few years Ayrfhire might per- 

 haps produce fifty thoufand bolls or more 

 yearly, and other corns in proportion. 



To conclude. I mud own there are few 

 counties in Scotland, where fuch rapid im- 

 provements could be made as in Ayrfhire, as 

 they have fo much inclofed, and in grafs, 

 with great plenty of lime and coal near at 

 hand, and good roads. In the courfe of ten 

 years the produce might be fix times what it 

 is at prefent, if the whole county were to 

 adopt an univerfal and regular courfe of 

 cropping. Suppbfe the whole county . were 

 to begin and break up a tenth part of all their 

 grafs grounds each year, and fow with oats 

 or lint, the old grafs grounds would produce 

 very great crops. 



The laid Mr Foulis in Irvine told me, that 



a few years ago fomc of Lord Eglinton's 



parks in old grafs were fet for plowing at 



nine pounds per acre for each year and the 



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