ON THE ARABLE LAND OF SCOTLAND.

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CHAP. VII.

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF ARABLE LAND IN SCOTLAND .

BY ROBERT KERR, ESQ.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

It is proposed, in this chapter, to explain the various sys-tems of managing arable land, as practised in the best culti-vated counties of Scotland , and by its most industrious and-enlightened agriculturists; and to point out what improve-ments it might be advantageous to introduce into districts,where those systems have not hitherto been tried, or at leastbeen but partially adopted.

In the discussion of this most interesting subject, it is in-tended to consider the following particulars:—I. The prin-ciples of tillage in genera], and the various operations con-nected with that fundamental department of arable husban-dry.—II. The fallow process, with its comparative advan-tages and disadvantages.—III. The most eligible courses ornotations of crops on various soils, and under different cir-cumstances_IV . The articles principally cultivated for their

seed, as the food of man or of domesticated animals—V. Suchas are principally cultivated for their leaves and stems.-—