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would only tend to spread and transplant what couch-grass had 

 been engendered. 



In other parts of the country a system somewhat similar to the 

 above prevailed, the great error of the time being the too frequent 

 repetition of culmiferous crops, without a sufficient command 

 of manure. In the Carse of Gowrie, in Perthshire, — a strong clay 

 district, — we find the rotations on those farms most conspicuous for 

 advancement, of a better description, thus : 



Fallow with Lime._ 4. Clover. 



1. Wheat. 5. Oats. 



2. Pease or Beans. Fallow. 



3. Barley dunged. 



Or the Oats (5), followed again by Beans, and then succeeded by 

 Wheat, which closed the rotation. 



In Berwickshire, upon an extensive farm (1600 acres), where 100 

 acres had been fallowed and limed in one season, we find the 

 rapacity of the improver inducing him to take the following rota- 

 tion. 



1. Oats. 6. Clover. 



2. Barley. Pasture four years, fol- 



3. Oats. lowed by oats, barley, 



4. Pease. oats. 



5. Barley, sown down. 



On lighter lands, where the cultivation of turnips had made some 

 progress, and also upon those farms where grazing had found 

 more favour, we recognise a better system of management, though 

 here also the objection still generally meets us of a too anxious 

 desire to scourge the land when under the operation of the plough. 

 The latter we shall notice first, and take as an instance the farm 

 of an individual, at that time the most extensive tenant in East 

 Lothian, and who was held to have given more attention than 

 usual to the improvement of land (very suitable for crops) by 

 grazing. His mode of management and rotation were as fol- 

 low : — 



Fallow dunged. 9. Pease. 



1. Barley. 10. Wheat. 



2. Clover, hay. 11. Barley. 

 3 — 7. Pasture, five years. 12. Oats. 

 8. Oats. Fallow. 



In another instance we find the mode in use on thin clay-land 

 to be — Fallow, without dung, oats sown down with clover and 

 rye-grass, which were the first year cut for hay. Upon the hay- 

 stubble a rich compost was applied, and the grass pastured for a 

 few years. The ground was then broken up, and " after a few 

 crops of corn, laid down again with grass-seeds." 



