AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 01- chap.Vll. 



min, when they continue long in the ground ; 

 and perhaps they cannot be kept in a body so 

 conveniently and so safely, if they are taken 

 up before winter. The best way of preserving 

 them is to mix them with dry sand. 



5. RYE. 



THIS kind of grain, though once common in 

 Fife, is now cultivated but by a few, and on a 

 very limited scale. It will thrive on land too 

 weak and poor for wheat, and will stand where, 

 from the richness of the soil, wheat would fall 

 and be lost. But as it is a very exhausting crop, 

 the value of the grain small, and the bread made 

 of it disliked by most people, especially since 

 wheaten bread came to be so much used, few 

 farmers think it worth their while to cultivate it. 



There may be some crops of other kinds tried, 

 such as hemp, buck-wheat, mustard, rape, &c. 

 but all on so small a scale, that it is unnecessary 

 particularly to mention them. 



