crook near Edinburgh, prefers also fallow without dung, 

 which is becoming a favourite system in England. Mr 

 Dudgeon of Prara one of the most intelligent farmers in 

 East Lothian, likewise contends, that if the land is of 

 very good quality, a well prepared fallow, will often pro 

 duce better wheat, without dung, than with it. 



7, OF THE CROPS COMMONLY CULTIVATED IN SCOT- 

 LANP, WITH bOME REMARKS ON .DRILLING. 



The articles principally cultivated in Scotland are not 

 nnmerous. They may be comprehended under the fol- 

 lowing heads: i. Wheat; 2. Barley, including bear or 

 big; 3. Oats; 4. Rye ; 5. Pease; 6. Beans; 7. Tares; 

 8. Turnips ; 9 Carrots; 10. Potatoes ; 11. Cabbage and 

 kail, and, 12. Cultivated grasses*. As this work is 

 not intended to be a treatise regarding every point con- 

 nected with agriculture, but merely a condensed state- 

 ment, of the information transmitted to me by the far- 

 mers of Scotland, regarding the system of husbandry 

 pursued by them, it is proposed, in this place, merely 

 to take notice of such particulars, communicated to me 

 in the course of my inquiries, as seem to be entitled 

 to attention. 



i. Wheat. 



The growth of wheat is greatly increased in Scotland. 

 It is not only more frequently introduced into rotations, 



* For the culture of flar and hemp, the reader is referred 

 to the General Report on the Husbandry of Scotland now 

 drawing up. 



