( '96 ) 



Yet the improvements in Ayrfhire at prc 7 

 fent are very far from being compleat. They 

 may be faid to be only blocked out, in or- 

 der to pave the way for a more compleat fy 

 tern. And, unlefs they alter the prefent me- 

 thod of cropping, they will be in danger of 

 lofing a great part of the expence already in- 

 curred; and the farms will be little better than 

 when they began to attempt improvements, 

 if not in a worfe condition. 



I am certain, if the whole fliire were to 

 adopt the plan propofed, of breaking up a 

 tenth part of all the grafs new and old every 

 year for ten years to come, and only take the 

 four crops mentioned, and the fecond year in 

 fallow, the value of the whole produce of 

 corns and grafs, in ten years, would be fix 

 times what it is at prefent, and the foil every 

 year richer, as long as the fchemes propofed 

 were continued. 



What proves this, and puts it beyond all 

 doubt, is the practice in the Carfe of Gowrie. 

 The farmers there, fmce they altered their 

 courfe of cropping, own, that they make as 

 much profit in one year, as they did before 

 in five. They now divide their farms into 

 fix equal parts, firft fallow, then wheat, third 



year, 



