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to require a fifth or sixth part annually dunged. If the 

 lands were clay, consequently unfit for turnips, he 

 would take fallow, wheat, grafs, and oats ; the grass to 

 remain one, two, or three years, as above. The grass, 

 after the first year, would pay little on clay lands, but 

 when in grass, there is no expence, and all the other 

 crops must be good ; but on land that will carry beans, 

 he thinks, the six-course shift the best, viz. I. Tur- 

 nips, or Fallow ; 2. Oats, Barley, or Wheat ; 3. Grass j 

 4. Oats ; 5. Beans ; and 6. Wheat. This, on its proper 

 soil, he considers as the best mode of the whole, conse- 

 quently such lands are able to pay the highest rent. 



Another rotation of four crops is adopted in Ayr- 

 shire, namely, i. Fallow, or Fallow Crops ; 2. Wheat ; 

 3. Clover ; 4. Oats ; and by adopting that rotation, an 

 active and intelligent farmer, (John Tennant, Esq; of 

 Girvan Mains), has gradually been enabled to stock 

 three different farms ; and beginning with a rent of onJy 

 L. 50 per annum, he now annually pays L. 2700, or 

 ffty-four times the sum he originally paid when he com- 

 menced his professional business. There can hardly be 

 a stronger argument in favour of that system. 



Mr Brodie of Garvald, in an upland farm, where the 

 fixing of a proper rotation, is of peculiar importance, 

 adopts the following course, i. Turnips; 2. Barley ; 

 3. Grass ; 4. Oats. He recommends the red oat in par- 

 ticular for such situations, and in the more northern or 

 higher situations and districts, it is probable that bear or 

 big would be better than barley. 



The rotation of four crops adopted near Edinburgh, 

 .namely, i. Potatoes; 2. Wheat; 3. Clover ; 4. Oats, is 

 unfortunately only calculated for the neighbourhood of 

 great towns. 



There cannot be a better preparation for wheat than 

 potatoes, nor one more valuable, in respect of produce. 



