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them down, as the others are done ; if it is not a very wet 

 season, the produce is from thirty to forty bolls per acre, 

 equal to from 270 to 360 Winchester bushels per Scotch, 

 or from 176 to 288 per English acre. This he considers 

 to be preferable to the crops of beans he used to have on 

 the same land: 2. After potatoes or yams, then wheat, 

 (drilled, where the soil is light, by Cook's machine), and 

 sown with grass seeds in the end of March, or beginning 

 of April : 3. Clover, twice cut ; and, 4. Oats.* 



5. Miscellaneous Particulars. The crops which may be 

 cultivated on strong lands, instead of a naked fallow, are, 

 1. Beans; 2. Peas; 3. Tares; 4. Potatoes or yams; 5. 

 Swedish turnips ; 6. Cabbages ; and, 7. Rape or cole seed. 

 The question is, whether any of these crops will be more 

 profitable to a farmer, than three bolls of wheat, or twelve 

 Winchester bushels of additional produce per Scotch acre, 

 (about nine and a half bushels per English acre), together 

 with those other advantages attending fallow, in the course 

 of five successive crops, which have been already pointed 

 out? 



* This idea of cultivating yams instead of beans, on very strong lands, 

 merits particular attention in this part of the kingdom, as a bean crop 

 fails so often. Regarding the culture of yams, the late Mr Scott of 

 Craiglockhart observed, that of late years yarfis have been by many sub- 

 stituted for the evening feed of horses. If work-horses can subsist to 

 equal advantage, partly on yams and Swedish turnips, what a promising 

 prospect for increasing the growth of wheat, and bringing fields to a high 

 state of cultivation without losing a crop ! One acre of yams, or Swedish 

 turnips, will afford more subsistence for either horses or cattle, than two 

 of oats or any other grain: On the other hand, it is said, that, generally 

 speaking, one -fourth more wheat will be grown on strong land, after 

 fallow, than after Swedish turnip. 



