584 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LAND. 



We print here from page 1 18 of text a continuation of 

 the awards for improvement of waste land : 



19. ;f 10 los., awarded in 1804, to Robert Hay, Standerts, for the im- 

 provement of a moor near Tranent. Mr Hay's report was published in the 

 third volume of the first series of the Transactions {1807). 



20. ;^8, awarded in 1804, to John M'Kinnon, Drumnakile, Mull. 



21. £4, awarded in 1804, to Malcolm M'Kinnon, Ardlum, Mull. 



22. A piece of plate of the value of ten guineas, awarded in 1804, to Wm. 

 Ker, Drumlimble, Campbeltown. This is the second premium awarded to 

 Mr Ker. 



23. A piece of plate of the value of ten guineas, awarded in 1804, to Alex. 

 Carmichael, merchant, Forres, for the improvement of 20 acres in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Forres. 



24. ;^8, awarded in 1805, to Mr M'Neill of Oronsay, Islay, for improving 

 moss by draining, ploughing, and levelling it, and afterwards laying on shell 

 sand and planting a potato crop, the produce of which was 20 tons per acre. 



25. £4, awarded in 1805, to Major Alex. Mackay, Laggan and Duick, 

 Islay, for impro'v'ing by the spade a turf bog, the depth of which could not be 

 ascertained by a twelve-foot rod. After having drained and levelled it, MajoJ 

 Mackay laid on a large quantity of calcareous earth and manure, and planted it 

 with potatoes, and the crop was abundant. 



26. £7, awarded in 1806, to Allan Cameron, Lochmaddy, for improving 

 a piece of shaggy moss, partly by dung and partly by sea ware, and planting 

 potatoes. 



27. £7, awarded in 1806, to the Rev. John Macdonald, Arasaig, Inver- 

 ness-shire, for improving a piece of barren moss, by manuring with shell sand 

 and sea ware, and planting potatoes. 



28. £S> awarded in 1807, to Angus Martin and John Morrison, Aird, 

 Benbecula, for impro\nng moss land never before under crop. The manure 

 used was sea ware, and the crop raised potatoes. 



29. £7, awarded in 1807, to Hugh Mackay, John M'Caskill, and Donald 

 M'Farlane, Brebost, Isle of Skye, foi improving mossy land by manuring with 

 sea ware, and raising potatoes thereon, of which, for each barrel planted, they 

 had a return of twenty barrels. 



30. £7 7s., awarded 1809, to Hugh MacCorquodale, South Ardchonnel, 

 Lome, for impro\-ing said farm by means of draining, delving, levelling, and 

 ploughing, lapng on lime, shell sand, or marl, and afterwards cleaning, dress- 

 ing, and dunging. 



31. A piece of plate of ten guineas' value, voted 1810, to Robert Gordon, 

 Lynavoir, Kirkmichael, Banffshire, for bringing into arable culture the greatest 

 extent of land, not hitherto in tillage, of any tenant in the upper parts of Aber- 

 deen and Banffshires. 



