208 AGRICULTURE 



practised, one finds the East Lothian six- 

 course rotation in common vogue. Assum- 

 ing the tillage land to be divided into six 

 sections, the East Lothian rotation will run 

 as follows : 



1. Turnips or swedes, receiving farmyard 



manure and artificials. 



2. Barley, wheat, or oats, unmanured. 



3. Seeds made into hay, receiving arti- 



ficials, usually about 2 cwt. of nitrate 

 of soda, with or without some super- 

 phosphate. 



4. Oats,not infrequently top-dressed with 



about 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda. 



5. Potatoes, liberally treated with farm- 



yard manure and artificials. 



6. Wheat, unmanured. 



Under this system, two-sixths, that is one- 

 third, of the farm is annually dressed with 

 farmyard manure, a condition of things that 

 usually entails the purchase of a certain 

 amount of such fertilizing material, and 

 this assumes convenient proximity to a 

 town or colliery, whence dung can be pro- 

 cured. Besides the third of the farm annually 

 dressed with farmyard manure, probably 

 another third is receiving artificial manure, 

 so that no less than two-thirds of the whole 



