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putting them up to the neck in earth, and covering them 

 with straw, he thus preserves them for his cows till the 

 month of February. 



Mr Scott of Craiglockhart observes, that an inexhaust- 

 ible fund of manure might be obtained, by cultivating 

 cabbages for autumn food. A careful hand will find as 

 marly pickings from an acre of thriving cabbages, as will 

 plentifully feed six or seven head of catde, from the mid- 

 dle of September to the middle of November. Feed- 

 ing solely on them much longer is not so proper. 



The same intelligent farmer observes, that cabbages 

 should be cultivated as green food for cattle in autumn, 

 and green kale for the same purpose during the months 

 of March and April, which last is certainly the scarcest 

 period of the year for food to stock, more especially in 

 high situations. 



To what extent cabbages ought to be cultivated in 

 Scotland, will be the subject of future consideration. 



12. Artificial Grasses. 



Red clover, with a mixture of rye-grass ; white clover 

 and yellow clover, and sometimes rib-grass, are the gras- 

 ses almost universally sown in Scotland. Some experi 



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* Two experiments have been reported to me of the cul 

 ture of lucern in Scotland, on by a proprietor near Edin- 

 burgh, who has about three acres of this plant, with which 

 he maintains ten or twelve horses during the summer season. 

 The other is by Mr Uuffin, vinegar merchant at the Abbey. 

 He has had it for several years growing in a plot of his gar- 

 den ; the plot is not near a rood, and it maintains one horse 

 to him during the summer months : he has three luxutiant 

 cuttings, and an after cutting in the end of autumn. From 

 the first sowing it grows annually ; it lasts from ten to fcur- 



