T72 , A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



OUTFIELD AND INFIELD LANDS. 



THE arable land in Scotland formerly consisted of out- 

 field and infield. The infield, in the treatment it re- 

 ceived, and in its quality, resembles the inclosed culti- 

 vated lands in England ; while the outfield was similar 

 to the uninclosed common field lands in this country. 

 There is reason to believe that this distinction, prior to 

 the date of inclosures, was likewise general throughout 

 England. It is wearing out fast in Scotland, from the 

 same cause. 



That part of the farm, called the outfield land, never 

 receives any manure. After taking from it two or three 

 crops of grain, it is left in the state it was in at reaping 

 the last crop, without sowing thereon grass-seeds, for 

 the production of any sort of herbage. During the first 

 two or three years, a sufficiency of grass to maintain a 

 couple of rabbits per acre is scarcely produced. In 

 the course of some years it acquires a sward, and after 

 having been depastured for some years more, it is again 



sub- 



