252 or FALLOWING. 



sible. In the neighbourhood of Glasgow, where rents 

 are from L. 6 to L.7 per Scotch acre, (from L. 4, 15s. to 

 L.5, 10s. per English acre), several thousand acres of land, 

 even of a clayey quality, are cultivated under the following 

 rotation, namely, 1. Potatoes; 2. Wheat; 3. Clover; and, 

 4-. Oats. The potatoes get from thirty to forty tons of 

 dung per acre ;* but the wheat gets only a moderate dress- 

 ing of hot lime. Under this, and other rotations of a si- 

 milar nature, it is admitted that the land is apt to get foul, 

 and to require a naked fallow, but the farmers have an 

 aversion to that mode of improvement, substituting in 

 its stead, what they call a bastard-fallotc, that is, three 

 furrows after the clover has been harvested; the land is 

 then sown with wheat, after getting a small quantity of 

 dung. 



An intelligent farmer near Edinburgh, (Mr Gray of 

 Gorgiemuir), adopts the following rotation on his strong 

 lands: 1. Potatoes, after being well cleaned by repeated 

 ploughings, &c. and manured with from forty to fifty cart 

 loads of Edinburgh street dung, thoroughly mixed with his 

 farm-yard dung ; the produce from forty to sixty bolls of 

 potatoes f per acre, (from 860 to 540 Winchester bushels 

 per Scotch, or 288 to 432 per English acre). Where there 

 is too great a proportion of clay in the soil, to grow pota- 

 toes with advantage, then yams for horses are planted, and 

 the land is always kept in open drills, from the planting to 

 their being taken up ; that is to say, without harrowing 



* It is remarked, that this is a very abundant dressing indeed, and 

 can only be given in the neighbourhood of a great town. In Berwick- 

 shire, twelve cart-loads is reckoned a good manuring once in thre* 

 crops. 



t The Edinburgh potatoe boll is 400 cwt. ; consequently five bolls 

 make a ton. 



