Agriculture of Scotland. 



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merit in husbandry, — we find in the general management a recur- 

 rence to a summer fallow only once in the course of seven or 

 eight years ; and though the turnip system had at this time made 

 considerable progress in this county, there seems to have been a 

 less frequent substitution of this crop for fallow than ought to 

 have prevailed. These fallows were succeeded by a rotation of 

 corn -crops, which also could not fail to render the return to a 

 state of rest anxiously to be desired by the exhausted soil ; and 

 the cleaning process must have been no easy matter after a course 

 of crops, of which the following are specimens, taken from the 

 practice of some of the finest East Lothian farms, viz. : — 



Fallow Dunged. Fallow Dunged. 



1. Wheat. 1. Wheat.- 



2. Barley. 2. Pease. 



3. Oats. 3. Barley. 



4. Pease. 4. Clover dunged. 



5. Wheat. 5. Wheat. 



6. Barley. 6. Barley. 

 '7. Oats. 7. Oats. 



Fallow. Fallow. 



Variation : Clover after No. 6 (Barley), in which case dung was ap- 

 plied on grass, and wheat followed. 



Frequently the recurrence to fallow took place at the end of six 

 or seven years ; but still the prevalent practice of a succession of 

 corn crops must have kept the soil in a comparatively foul and in- 

 efficient state. The rotations in this case were — 



Fallow Dunged. Fallow Limed. 



1. Wheat or Barley. 1. Wheat or Oats. 



2. Pease or Beans drilled. 2. Beans drilled. 



3. Barley. 3. Barley. 



4. Oats.* 4. Clover. 



5. Pease. 5. Wheat. 



6. Wheat. Fallow. 

 Fallow. 



Or, following a better system, the fallow recurred sometimes after four 

 years. 



Fallow. 3. Barley. 



1. Wheat. 4. Oats.' 



2. Clover. Fallow, 



Tn some of the instances specified above we find a practice pre- 

 vailed of giving three, or sometimes four, furrows, previous to the 

 repetition of the barley-crop ; but, as this could be done only in 

 late autumn or early spring, this sort of bastard fallow could serve 

 no pm-pose with a view to the cleaning of the land : on the contrary. 



