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greatly lessened : Instruments also may be invented, which 

 may prove more effectual for cleaning and pulverizing the 

 soil, than those at present in use : New plants may likewise 

 be discovered, or a more advantageous mode of cultivating 

 old ones : Nor is it possible to foresee, what improvements 

 may be effected by draining, in consequence of which, the 

 cultivation of wet soils may be facilitated, and either stock 

 may be fed upon the ground, or its produce may be remo- 

 ved without injury. 



SECT. V. Of the Crops usually cultivated in Scotland. 



THE crops principally cultivated in Scotland, are, 1. 

 Wheat; 2. Barley, including bear or big; 3. Oats; 4. Peas; 

 5. Beans ; 6. Tares ; 7. Turnips ; 8. Potatoes ; and, 9. A 

 mixture of Clover and Rye grass. Some carrots, and iil 

 particular instances, cabbages, kale, rye, and flax, are also 

 occasionally cultivated ; but none of these articles find a 

 place in the general husbandry of Scotland. As this work, 

 is not intended to be a treatise regarding every point con- 

 nected with agriculture, but, in a great measure, a conden- 

 sed statement of the information transmitted to me by the 

 farmers in the more improved districts of Scotland, regard- 

 ing the systems of husbandry pursued by them, it is propo- 

 sed, in general, to take notice only of such particulars, com- 

 municated to me in the course of my enquiries, as seem to 

 be entitled to attention, unless where it may be necessary, 

 to add some remarks regarding the practices of England, 

 by way of illustration. 



