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CONTENTS.

Pace: Oats fucceed wel] On crude foils se~~ 246 Grafs feeds fhould be fown with the fir corn crop 247 Rye-graffes recommended—— 249 Burn-beaking, cafes in which jt may be fuccefsfully adopted 250 Burning does not confume the{oil—_ 25% The furface only may be burned, though the foil be deep ploughed—_ 253 Burning old corn land May prove hurtful— 254 Burning moffy foil a dangerous practice— 256 Stiff clayey foils difficult to be brought into cultivation 258 The expence of cultivating fuch foils often prove ruinous 258 ad, On the cultivation of wafte land as not connefed witha farm 261 Temporary meafure aeceflary to be adopted at the be- ginning of fuch Operations—= a 261 The natural produce of walte lands confumed by fheep 263 The dung of thefe fheep a fource of improvement 264 Lime fhould be conjoined with it— 267) Folding of fheep, mode of condudtiy g it— 269 Permanent inclofures not here neceffary———— 274 Divided commons often come under this clafs of waftes 275 Lime applied to the furface of grafs land, how to be managed————_ 274 Irrigations flightly‘noticed—~~ 79 Inc!ofures circumftances that render them unneceffary 280

ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS,

PART SECOND.

TREES

§ I. General remarks on the different kinds of trees that

may be planted on waftes————

§ II. OF fir plantations in particular———

Price at which a Plantation of firs can be made in Scot- land me—'

On bleak expofures, which kind thrives bet— = ae

BY” PLANTING

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