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will be less, in the proportion of ten falls. I shall be the more particular 

 in this department, as the very same directions on a large scale will suffice 

 for keeping of an ordinary cowl In either case the division under potatoes will 

 be attached to the new rotation, and the kitchen-garden work will not be 

 repeated. We have, therefore, 140 falls, Scots measure, which I propose 

 laying out in four equal parts, to be subjected to the following rotation, viz. 

 potatoes and turnips with dung, barley with grass seeds slightly dunged, 

 grass, oats, 35 falls in each division. 



Supposing the work to be performed by the spade, 35 falls will require 

 to be dug in March, and sown with oats, about a bushel and a half; this 

 will require six days' hard work in that month. 



Twenty falls of potatoes, digging, dunging, and planting in April, and 35 

 falls for barley slightly dunged, will require about ten days of a man, and 

 five of a young person, in that month. A bushel of barley, 3 lbs. of clover, 

 and a quarter of a bushel of rye grass, will seed the barley division. If any 

 of the potatoes are not planted in April, they may be got in in May. 



In June 15 falls will require to be dunged and sown with field turnips, 

 at 27 in. between the rows ; this will take three days work ; hoeing potatoes, 

 collecting dung, &c, one day's work. 



A young person will clean the turnips in July, and earth up the potatoes 

 in two days and a half. 



The same time will be requisite in August. If goats are kept, 20s. worth 

 of bone-dust will have to be purchased yearly. If a cow is kept, no pur- 

 chase of dung will be necessary. I have, in such cases, found the cottager 

 able to sell some, and keep his ground in good order. 



A man or woman will cut the barley in one day. The oats will take 

 the same time. Stooking and stacking, a day. Taking potatoes up in Octo- 

 ber, and digging the ground, four days. Threshing oats and barley in course 

 of the winter, making up the straw, and cleaning the grain, four days in all, 

 or thirty-three days of a man and ten of a woman ; but the work in the 

 garden will be proportionally lessened as the late potato division is attached 

 to this rotation, which, including the garden, may amount in the whole to 

 forty-eight days of a man and sixteen of a young person in course of the 

 year ; for which the cottager has the above vegetables in regular supply ; 

 pork, eggs, milk, to supply an ordinary family ; 2 bolls, equal to 12 bushels, 

 oats, and 2 bolls barley, besides seed for next year. 



III. The ground requisite for a labourer's family, pigs, and a cow? 



I now proceed to notice the third query, respecting the keep of an 

 ordinary cow, which may weigh about 24 stone, Dutch. To support a cow 

 of this weight, 1 Scots acre and 3 roods of ordinary land will be necessary, 

 including 20 falls for garden ground, which will be divided in four equal 

 parts, besides the garden ; or 65 falls in each part, to be cropped in the 

 same manner as above, with this difference, that the potatoes and turnips 

 shall occupy equal proportions of that division. The turnips to be followed 

 with barley, and the potatoes with oats. The barley to be sown with grass 

 seeds, and half the grass division to be laid out in equal parts, with some of the 

 larger late cabbage and peas shifting with the grass alternately, so as clover 

 will only succeed clover once in eight years, which will insure good crops. 

 This ground should be let to plough, and might cost the cottager about 

 1/. 15s. annually, or work to that areiount to have it done ,* which would 

 much abridge the necessary labour by spade work : but, as work is scarce, 

 I shall suppose that the whole is done by the spade, which would be sixty- 

 one days, with five days added for the peas and cabbage in the grass divi- 

 sion, or sixty-six days of a man and twenty of a woman, to which we may 

 add fifteen days of a man for the garden and six of a woman, making in all 

 on this establishment eighty-one days of a man and twenty-six of a woman. 



