Agriculture of Scotland. 



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Where turnips and potatoes had been introduced, a better 

 order of things generally obtained, and this system seems invari- 

 ably to have been attended by a more frequent adoption of arti- 

 ficial grasses in the course. These crops were not in all instances 

 drilled, but this improvement was fast gaining ground. In the 

 Lothian s we have rotations of 



1. Turnips drilled. 



2. Barley. 



3. Clover dunged. 



4. Wheat. 



5. Barley. 



6. Grass, pastured. 



7. Wheat or Barley, 



after rag fallow. 



8. Oats. 



Or the land, sown with grasses on barley after turnips, was 

 pastured for three or four years ; the plan being invariably to cut 

 the first clover-crop^ and frequently even the grass of the second 

 year. The soil thus managed Vvas when broken up subjected to 

 three successive crops of corn, viz. : — Oats, barley, oats ; or oats, 

 pease, barley. In Mid-Lothian, in the neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh, and where the benefit of manure from that town was, we 

 find, very laudably called into exercise^ the following rotation 

 was observed : — 



1. Potatoes, drilled and well manured. 



2. Wheat. 



3. Barley, sown down with seeds. 



4. Hay, fallowed roughly, three times ploughed and dunged. 



5. Wlieat. 



6. Beans, potatoes, and cabbage. 



7. Barley. 



On another farm, ha^ing the advantage of that manure, we have 

 this rotation. Beginning at the grass after cutting the second 

 year, a rag or bastard fallow, to which dung was applied : then 



1. Wheat. 4. Potatoes and turnips, with 



2. Oats. dung to the latter. 



3. Pease. 5. Barley. 



6. Clover. 



It is in Berwickshire and the neighbouring parts of Roxburgh- 

 shire, ^vhere Mr. Dawson, of Frogden, first introduced and per- 

 fected the drill culture of turnips, that we find that operation, 

 even at this time, carried on in its greatest extent and perfection ; 

 and the rotation also following this crop best regulated to insure 

 its most effectual and least troublesome repetition. Here we 

 find, for example, some instances of the following rotation: — 



1. Potatoes or drilled tur- 



nips. 



2. Barley with ware, or sea- 



weed. 



3. Beans. 



4. Barley. 



5. Grass. 



6. Wheat. 



