40 GREEN CROPS. 



us in Scotland might bring a rent of L. 5 per 

 acre. 



He has two or three Durham bulls for cros 

 sing, but they are so low in condition and so 

 disfigured appearing as if scalded with hot 

 water that it is impossible to judge of their 

 properties. He also crosses with half-bred 

 bulls, and the consequence is a heterogeneous 

 mixture which it would puzzle a Wetherell to 

 analyse. 



His system is to sell his cattle in the fall, 

 when they are three or four years old, at the 

 New York market distant 300 miles, where 

 they fetch a price equal to L. 8 or L. 10 a 

 head. 



He raises no green crops, with the excep 

 tion of a few acres of potatoes and mangel 

 wurzel. Turnips he says cannot be raised 

 with them, being all cut off with the fly ; but 

 to the cultivation of that valuable root I could 

 discover here no physical impediment which 

 might not be overcome by skilful management. 



He mows annually about 500 acres of his 

 meadow land, and the hay made from it is the 



