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great pulverization that the soil receives during the fallow, 

 being admirably calculated for that crop. About thirty 

 years ago, indeed, barley used to be the first crop after fal- 

 low in Scotland. But the price of wheat is so much better, 

 that it is extremely hostile to any change of system. 



Seven Years Rotation. The following rotation of seven 

 years, is strongly recommended : 1. Grain from pasture; 

 2. Turnips ; 3. Grain ; 4. Clover ; 5. 6. and 7. Pasture. 

 As the pasture is never so good after cutting the clover, it 

 is usual to make no more of it into hay, than merely serves 

 the horses on the farm, and to pasture the far greater part 

 of the clover crop. This plan gives great crops of grain 

 and turnips. 



OF DOUBLE ROTATIONS. 



There is a mode of cropping to which I think the name 

 of a double rotation may be given. It is, where a particular 

 course has been laid down, but where part of the farm is 

 alternately put under different crops, so as to prevent too 

 frequent a repetition of the same sort of grain, on the 

 same spot. 



There is a sort of double rotation frequently practised in 

 Berwickshire, where a part of a farm is preserved in grass 

 for three, four, or five years, then brought into the regular 

 rotation, and another field taken out of it. Mr Thomson 

 at Bewlie in Roxburghshire, has adopted this plan with 

 much success. His rotation upon the dry-soil division of 

 his farm is, 1. Turnips or fallow ; 2. Wheat, barley, or oats ; 

 3. Clover, partly cut and partly pastured ; and, 4. Partly 

 wheat, but principally potatoe oats ; but he has a fifth divi- 



