it had no other advantages ; for a great crop 

 of good fine flax is worth two or three of the 

 beft crops of corns. 



It is not propofed to plough the ground af- 

 ter one year's flooding ; but the water fhould 

 be continued for five or fix years, or more. 



This is what has hurt the character of 

 grounds being benefited by water running 

 upon the lands in the winter time, viz. that 

 a great many plough the land watered only 

 one year, which often produces great crops ; 

 and, what is flill worfe, they continue crop- 

 ping for two or three years more without any 

 other manure. This impoveriflles the foil 

 very much ; the fame as lime and fliell marl, 

 when firft laid on, which produce very great 

 crops for a few years ; but if continued to 

 crop without dung, and being thrown into 

 grafs, impoveriflles the foil fo much as to 

 make it unfit to produce either corns or 

 grafs. 



Since writing the above, a gentleman told 

 rne, he knew a field by the fide of the river 

 Tweed, which was fo poor, that the farmer 

 defpifed it, not thinking it Capable of any 

 improvement for either corn or grafs, which 

 procured but very little pafture. It com- 

 P p monly 



