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followed by the most judicious husbandmen in the best culti-vated districts of Scotland . Much experience and judgmentare required before the husbandman can arrange and adaptthese properly to local circumstances, and apply them to eachparticular field or division of a farm, in respect to soil, situa-tion, climate, and the like. Hence every rule, or rather in-stance here adhibited, can only be adduced as general ex-amples, and not as regulations that ought to be rigidly adhe-red to.

Some account of the usual rotations practised in the bestcultivated districts of Scotland , upon different soils and underdifferent circumstances, shall now be given, prefixing two ge-neral remarks.

First, Independent of the rules or restrictions which maybe prescribed in leases, and which too frequently are arbitra-ry and injudicious, every farmer has necessarily to considerhis own wants for the immediate use of his farm, in directinghis plans, or adjusting his rotations or schemes of manage-ment. Thus a husbandman, in consequence of applying hisattention more particularly to live-stock, cither from situationor predilection, requires more grass than another, or the con-trary. Or it may happen that, with the strongest wish tofollow out prescribed regulations, in regard to the proportionof the land directed to be kept in grass by the lease, the newley is suffocated by the grain crop among which the grasseswere sown, and the regular rotation thus overturned in spiteof the husbandman. Hence the propriety, or rather neces-sity, of giving a certain latitude to all farmers, even in theclosest leases; otherwise an intolerable injury may be sustain-ed, while every effort has been used to comply with the pre-scribed rules.

Secondly, It may also be proper to mention, that for theaccurate and convenient management of every farm under aregular course of cropping, it were desirable, that it shouldbe divided into a number of inclosures, according with thesystem of rotation that is meant to be fallowed j as. it is both