Besides these advantages, fallowing is supposed tc 

 contribute materially to the destruction of snails and 

 other vermin in the ground, not only by destroying them 

 and their eggs, but also by exposing them to the attacks 

 of rooks and other birds *. 



i. Of the manner in which fallowing is performed. 



As the most intelligent fanners in Scotland are con- 

 vinced, that their after crops are good, in proportion to 

 the correctness with which the summer fallowing pro- 

 cess is executed, they bestow the greatest possible atten- 

 tion on that operation, by having it done as early in the 

 summer as possible, perhaps by the end of June, com- 

 pletely reduced by repeated ploughings and harrowings. 

 By that time, every kind of root weeds and quickens 

 ought to be gathered off at farthest by the end of July, it 

 should be dunged and seed furrowed by the end of 

 August ; of course, ready to sow any time after the 2oth 

 September. It has been found that, by allowing land to 



mutton fed from it, consequently it is great gain, when the 

 roots make up for what is taken from the surface. 



Here it 5s to be observed, that it is probable the new earth 

 is turned up in the operation of fallowing, which renders the 

 clover plant so successful. 



* Mr Money Hill remarks, that fallowing also is indispen- 

 <-able, if a farm has got into bad order. When a farmer enters 

 upon an occupation which has been left by a sloven, on a lease 

 of twenty-one years, it is necessary to fallow all his land as it 

 corner in rotation for wheat, under the fifth and die sixth 

 coime system cf Norfolk. This will take him eleven years to 

 pet the whole fatm clean. This grand desideratum being ac- 

 complished, Mr Hill considers fallows ar? unnecessary during 

 the remaining ten years of his le 



