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On inferior soils, i. Turnips or fallow ; a. Wheat ; 

 3. Clover ; 4. Pasture ; 5. Pasture ; 6. Angus oats. 



On all the strong lands in the Carse of Gowrie, and 

 in other fertile districts in Scotland, the following ro- 

 tation of six crops, with some variations, is considered 

 as preferable to every other. I. Fallow; a. Wheat; 



3. Beans ; 4. Barley; 5. Grass ; 6. Oats ; and indeed if it 

 is admitted, that fallow is necessary once in six years, 

 there cannot, on the whole, be a better system, for strong 

 or rich soils. Where wheat can be taken the fourth 

 year instead of barley, the produce is still more va- 

 luable. By some farmers, the course is altered in the 

 following manner : i. Fallow; 2. Wheat; 3. Clover; 



4. Oats ; 5. Beans ; 6. Wheat. 



Since the decrease of the value of barley, and the 

 great demand for wheat, they have, in the Carse <5f Gow- 

 rie, in some degree, deviated from the regular system 

 above pointed out, by sowing about one-half of the 

 fourth division with wheat and with grass-seeds, to 

 bring the grounds again into a proper rotation, in order 

 that the whole fifth division may be under grass ; and 

 still farther to increase the quantity of wheat, a great 

 part of the sixth division is often sown with wheat in- 

 stead of .oats. By thus stealing from the barley and 

 oat divisions, which is done only in favourable seasons, 

 there is often one-third part of the farm in wheat, in- 

 stead of one-sixth part, as the rotation before points 

 out. 



On the subject of this rotation, it is only necessary to 

 add, that some intelligent farmers disapprove much of sow- 

 ing wheat on limed fallows, being so frequently thrown 

 out of the soil by the alternate frost, and fresh weather 

 in the spring, and which often presents little more 

 than half a crop of inferior wheat. Some change, there- 



