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frequent occasion, in the course of fallowing, to plant some 

 potatoes upon some part of the fallow field more adapted 

 for drill crops than the rest. The ground thus planted, 

 was always dunged with stronger, and a greater allowance 

 of manure, than the naked fallows. The wheat crop after 

 the naked fallow was much heavier, and more luxuriant, 

 than that after the potatoe, although the wheat after the 

 potatoe was superior in quality. The after crops of the ro- 

 tation upon the naked fallow, were throughout superior in 

 every respect to those after the potatoe, and the land much 

 cleaner in the end. 



Nor is it the least important advantage of a fallow, that 

 less dung is necessary, to produce the same effect, whilst 

 lime may be applied, and with a greater probability of suc- 

 cess, than in any other stage of the rotation. If dung is 

 laid on a fallow, and well mixed with the soil, its operation 

 is instantaneous, as the whole pores of the soil are then 

 open to receive the nourishment that is administered. I 

 must, at the same time, remark, that in those districts, of 

 England, where fallowing is practised, the application of 

 dung to the crop of beans is becoming a favourite sys- 

 tem. That experienced and respectable Border farmer, 

 Mr George Culley, is of opinion, that dunging naked fal- 

 low is totally unnecessary, (except on very lean hungry 

 clays), and most commonly injures the succeeding crop of 

 wheat, by making it too luxuriant. On the dunged land, 

 there may be more stocks in the field, but there will be 

 fewer bushels in the barn, than if the land had been limed 

 and no dung given. This is also the opinion of some 

 Scotch farmers. Mr Andrew of Tillilumb, near Perth, 

 when he fallows, gives no manure, as he finds that fallow 

 wheat with manure is apt to be too luxuriant. Mr Allan 

 of Craigrook, near Edinburgh, also prefers fallow without 

 dung. Where land is of a good quality, Mr Wight of. 



