CONTENTS of Vol. IIL
Lime the moft univerfal manure for unproductive land,
Dung ought to be conjoined with lime.
Summer fallowing, ufes of it.
Deep ftirring of the foil, importance of.
Trenching, its utility.©
The miner, an implement fo called, its ufes.
A pa ticular kind of wet foils, how to diain and cultivate
Deep ploughing on ordinary occafions, not neccflary.
Lime ought to be fpread while in a dry powdry ftate.
Turnip a proper crop for unmellowed foils.
Turnips fhould be fown early.
Two crops of turnips may be taken in fucceffion.
Peas or vetches may be fown on Riff foils.
Oats fucceed well on crude foils.
Grafs fezds thould be fown with the firft corn crop.
Rye-grafs recommended.
Burn-baiting, cafes in which it may be fucceis{ully adopted,
The /urface only may be burned, though the foil be deep
ploughed.
Burning old corn-land may prove hurtful,
Burning moffy foils a dangerous praétice.
Stiff clayey foils diificult to be brought into cultivation.
The expence of cultivating fuch foils often proves ruinous. 2d. On the culivation of wafte lands as not connetied with a farm.
Temporary meafures neceflary to be adopted at the beginning of
fach operations,
The natural produce of wafte lands confumed by fheep.
The dung of thefe theep a fource of improvement,
Lime fhould be conjoined with it.:
Folding of theep, mode of conducting It.
Permanent inclofures not here neceflary.
Divided commons cften come under this clafs of wattes.
Lime applied to the furface of grafs land, how to be managed,
Irrigations flightly noticed.:
Inclofures, circumftances that render them unneceffary.
Pun RY*S2E-C. OW D-
ON THE. IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS, BY PLANTING TREES.
§. I. General remarks on the different kinds of trees ‘that may be planted on waftes.
IJ. Of fir plantations in particular.
Price at which a plantation of firs can be made in Scotland,
On bleak expofures, which kind thrives beft.
Firs ought to be planted out while very young.
The leaves and branches of the fir-tree a wholefome food for cattle and fheep.
JII. Of the larch-tree, its value and ufes.
The value of its wood remarked by Vitruvius, Its extreme durability remarked by Dr. Pallas. w= by Mr. Harte, and Admiral Greig.
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