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mixture of Peruvian guano with either nitrate of soda or sulphate 
of ammonia, the quantity being about 3 cwts. per Scotch acre. 
Seeds are sel(h)m mown, but when this is done the aftermath is fed. 
As a general rule, four-fifths of the first year's seeds are grazed by- 
sheep, and cattle are soiled with the remainder. About two or 
three cuts are obtained for soiling, a second top-dressing of nitrate 
of soda being given after the first cut. Hoggs are put on the 
pastured seeds, getting cake or corn, and are sold off by the 1st of 
July ; and, in about a month's time, lambs, newly bought in, are 
put on the same land until autumn, when they are transferred to 
the fields which had been cut for soiling during the summer. 
Tlie Thirty Acres. — This land is too light and poor to be 
managed in the ordinary way ; it is therefore farmed on a five or 
six course, comprising only one white crop, viz. wheat, followed 
by seeds for three or four years, and succeeded by early potatoes 
and a catch-crop of turnips or green food. One field has for 
many years been in potatoes every spring, followed the same year 
by rye-grass ; but this year the catch-crop was turnips. 
The catch-crop having been removed to be fed by cattle, the 
land is prepared and wheat is sown in the same way as on 
other portions of the farm after turnips ; and the same mixture 
of seeds described already is sown in the spring. These 
seeds, after remaining three or four years, are broken up in 
November by ploughing 5 inches deep with a broad share. In 
February the land is cross-ploughed, grubbed, and harrowed, and 
drawn out in drills by a double-mouldboard plough. Not less 
than thirty cartloads of farmyard manure per imperial acre, as 
well as 5 cwts. of Peruvian guano upon it, are put in the drills, 
and upon this pabulum the early potatoes are planted, 17 cwts. of 
cut setts being used per acre. After the ridges are split by 
the double-mouldboard plough, the crop is treated in the same 
manner as swedes. The potatoes are sold, generally for the 
Glasgow market, at a certain price per acre, which includes 
carting the crop to the nearest railway station ; but the purchaser 
is at the expense of lifting, and contracts to do this by a certain 
date, generally about the 22nd of June. 
After the potatoes are off, the land is sown with either turnips, 
rape, or grass-seeds. If the last-named crop is selected, the 
haulms are removed, the land is harrowed, and sown immediately 
with 3 bushels per imperial acre of Annual Rye-grass. If turnips 
or rape is to be grown, the land is ridged, the haulms are put in 
the drills, and the seed is sown in the usual manner. In both 
cases a dressing of artificial manure is given, generally about 
three cwts. per acre, or even four, of a mixture of dissolved bones 
and guano. This light sandy land will not bear turnips often, 
as it has a tendency to become turnip-sick very soon ; but on 
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