sect. PlI. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 153 



3. On light or gravelly soils. 



1. Turnip dunged On. Turnip with dung Or I. Turnip 



2. Barley 2. Barley 2. Barley 



3. Hay 3. Clover 3. &. 4. Hay 



4. Wheat 4. Wheat or oats 5. &-6. Pasture 



5. Pulse or oats 7. Oats 



Or i. Oats from old ley Or I. Potatoes with dung 

 broken up 



2. Flax 2. Flax 



3. Barley with dung 3. Clover and rye-grass 



4. Hay 4. Hay 



5. Pasture 5. Oats. 



N. B. A light Soil, unless very tenacious of moisture, is 

 improper for flax. 



On a dry light loam, mixed with gravel, and 

 of a good depth, the following rotation has been 

 tried and found to answer : 



i. Potatoes. 2. Wheat. 3. Hay. 4. Oats. 



5. Drilled beans, or pease and beans mixed. 



6. Barley. Or, i. Turnip well dunged. 2. 

 Barley. 3. Hay. 4. Oats. 5. Drilled beans, 

 slightly dunged. 6. Wheat. 



In the first of these courses the best method 

 seems to be, to give half of the dung to the 

 wheat, and the other half to the beans or barley, 

 and none to the potatoes. 



The following rotation has been adopted by 

 Mr Qheap of Rossie, upon a farm which he has 

 lately improved, and keeps in his own hand. 

 i. Potatoes and turnip, and partly pulse. 2. 

 Barley. 3. Hay. 4. Pasture. And, 5. Oats. 

 The farm consists of 150 acres, inclosed and 

 subdivided into parks of 30 acres each, corre- 



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