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hot hrae. Under this, and other rotations of a similar 

 nature, it is stated, that the land is apt to get foul, 

 which would require a naked fallow, but the farmers 

 "have an aversion to that mode of improvement, and sub- 

 stitute, in its stead, what they call a bastard fallow, that 

 is, three furrows after the clover has been cut ; the land 

 is then sown with wheat, and it gets a email quantity of 

 dung. 



An intelligent farmer near Edinburgh, (Mr Gray of 

 Gorgie Muir), adopts the following rotation on his strong 

 lands : i. Potatoes, afier being well cleaned by repeated 

 ploughings, &c., and manured with from forty to fifty 

 cart-loads of Edinburgh street dung, mixed and turned 

 with his farm-yard dung, produce from forty to sixty 

 bolls per acre. Where there is too great a proportion 

 of clay in the soil, to grow potatoes to advantage, there 

 yams for horses are planted, and this land is always kept 

 in open drills, from planting to taking up i that is to 

 say, without harrowing them down, as the others are 

 done ; and if it is not a very wet season, the produce is 

 from thirty to forty bolls per acre, which he considers 

 preferable to the crops of beans he used to have on the 

 same land : 2. After potatoes and yams, wheat, (drilled, 

 where the soil is light, by Cook's machine), and sown 

 with gcass seeds in the end of March, or beginning of 

 April : 3. Clover, twice cut, and, 4. Oats. 



This idea of cultivating yams ins:ead of beans, on 

 very strong lands, merits particular attention in tMs 

 part of the kingdom *. Mr Robertson of Ladykirk, ob- 



* On ihis subject, Mr Scott of Craiglockhart observes, re- 

 garding the feeding of horses, thai of late yean yams h.we 

 been by many substituted for the evening feed. If work- 



