Agriculture of Scotland. 



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Wheat 

 Barley 

 Oats 

 Rye 



Beans and Pease 



Potatoes 



Turnips 



Flax 



Gardens 



Fallow 



Acres. 

 140,095 

 280,193 

 1,260,352 

 500 

 118,000 



80,000 

 407,125 



16,500 



32,000 

 218,950 



" But a large extent of waste land has been brought under cultivation 

 during the last twenty years ; and we are also satisfied, from the greatly 

 increased consumption of wheaten bread in Scotland, and other circum- 

 stances, that the quantity of land assigned to the growth of wheat has in- 

 creased both absolutely and relatively. In our view of the matter, the 

 distribution of the land in tillage would be more correct, were it made 

 as follows : — 



Acres. 



Wheat 

 Barley 

 Oats 



Beans and Pease 



Potatoes 



Turnips 



Flax 



Gardens 



Fallow 



Total 



220,000 

 280,000 

 1,215,000 

 100,000 

 130,000 

 350,000 

 15,000 

 32,000 

 150,000 



2,533,000 " 



Now, it humbly appears to us that besides that, in this distribu- 

 tion of the land in tillage, ^' the large extent of waste land brought 

 under cultivation during the last twenty years" has been omitted to 

 be added, the distribution itself — allowing that it was relatively 

 correct in the first instance—has not been sufficiently changed to 

 meet the altered circumstances. The breadth of turnips, especi- 

 ally, has been diminished, in place of being materially increased. 

 But it is difficult to understand upon what principle these state- 

 ments have been framed, as, in order to agree with any know n mode 

 of culture, the grass being excluded, it is necessary that the fallow 

 and green crops stand in proportion to the corn crops as one to 

 two, unless, indeed, we suppose a repetition of white crops, which 

 cannot now surely be contemplated. Taking, then, the total num- 

 ber of arable acres as here mentioned, we should be inclined to 

 adopt the following distribution as nearer the truth : — • 



