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at lime, marl, sea-ware, town dung, &c. The celebrat- 

 ed Dunbar rotation, of, i. Turnips; 2. Wheat; 3. 

 Grass ; and, 4. Wheat, could not be possibly carried on, 

 without the command of sea-ware, which that neigh, 

 bourhood possesses : and, 5. The rotation must also de- 

 pend on the state or condition of the soil, whether it be old 

 cultivated land, or a new improvement. 



We shall now proceed to state the maxims, which have 

 been recommended, as the best calculated, to lay the foun- 

 dations of judicious systems of rotation. 



i. It is proper to have various articles on your farm , 

 so as not to run too much risk, either in regard to the 

 season, or to the sale of the produce afterwards. If s 

 farmer were to cultivate but one crop, he might often 

 be materially injured by one unfavourable season ; or if 

 the article which he raised was not saleable, the land 

 had better have remained unploughed. 



a. To have the crops so arranged, that the labour of 

 ploughing for each, of sowing, weeding, reaping, &c. 

 shall proceed in a regular succession, and that the labour 

 or business be not too much crowded on the farmer, at 

 any one season of the year, nor any extra stock rendered 

 necessary; but that the crops produced on the farm, shall 

 be cultivated by the same hands, and with the same 

 cattle. To this general rule, hand-hoers in spring and 

 summer, and reapers in autumn, must form an excep- 

 tion. 



3. To avoid forcing crops, or frequent repetitions of 

 the same articles or species, a diminution both in quan- 



saleable, unless at prices inferior to their cultivation, and if 

 universal, or even but a little more extended, they would 

 be unsaleable almost at any price. Berwickshire Report, 

 p. 214. 



