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are cultivated, and beans are certainly not suitable to very 

 light turnip land. 



Mr Rennie of Phantassie, and Mr Brown of Markle, 

 generally adopt, in their turnip soils, the following rota- 

 tion : 1. Turnips ; 2. Winter wheat, sown in spring,* or 

 barley; 3. Clover; and, 4. Oats. This is certainly a pro- 

 ductive rotation, and it is strongly in its favour, that it is re- 

 commended by such eminent farmers, who are justly ac- 

 counted at the head of their profession. 



Mr Hunter of Tynefield's rotation is, 1. Turnips; 2. 

 Wheat; 3. Grass, (mostly sheep-fed) ; 4. Four-fifths win- 

 ter wheat sown in spring, and one-fifth oats. He adds, 

 that under this rotation, the produce of his farm has been 

 improved, both in quality and in quantity, since its com- 

 mencement to the present time, and continues to improve. 

 The additional quantity is to the amount of no less than 1 

 bolls per Scotch acre, or 4- bushels per English acre. 



I have now to state a course of cropping still more severe, 

 which has been followed by some farmers in the neighbour- 

 hood of Dunbar, and to which I have therefore given the 

 name of the Dunbar Rotation. The course is, 1. Turnips; 

 2. Drilled wheat; 3. Clover; 4-. Drilled wheat. Being ex- 



* In regard to winter wheat sown in spring, after turnips, an experi- 

 enced farmer, (Mr Dudgeon of Prora), observes, that it may be safely 

 sown as late as the middle of March, and it has succeeded even later, 

 and that on fine land, it may be safely taken in preference either to bar- 

 ley or oats, if sheep have eat the turnips upon the ground. This is the 

 most valuable, and the least expensive method of using them. But fine 

 land, by this scheme, would be over-dunged, were it not for the practice 

 adopted, of stripping out a part of the turnips, to the amount of one- 

 fourth, one-third, or even one-half, (leaving the alternate rows), and car- 

 rying those drawn out to the cattle. When a certain breadth is thus 

 stripped, the sheep-flakes can be set upon the drills which remain, and 

 the stripping be carried on as they need more ground. 



