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che occupiers feed their horſes upon ſtraw only. The ſe- cond cutting, if the ſeaſon is favourable, is made likewiſe into hay: otherwiſe it is either paſtured, or cut and eat green. The ground 1s ſeldom, except in Carſe-lands, plow- ed up after one crop. By the common prattice the field is| bhayed the ſecond year, and afterwards paſtured for two, three or four years. Light land, when in good heart, is conceived by the beſt farmers in this county, to be capable of pro-

« Aucing two good crops of grain, ard four of graß alternately.

Oats is always the firſt crop after the land is broke up; and graſs ſeeds are again ſowed with the ſecond crop, which is uſually barley. In the Carſe-lands the following courſe-is generally preferred; 1. Summer fallow; 2. Wheat; 3. Beans and Peaſe; 4. Barley; 5.Hay; 6. Oats. The land is well manured with lime, dung, or compoſt. Six chalders of lime, and 40 fingle-horſe cart-loads of dung, are not unfrequently given to an acre,'

MANURES.

Lime. This moſt uſeful foſlil is employed as a manure every where inthe county; and the advantages ariſing from it, are amazing. Limeſtone of different kinds abounds in the county: ſome are of the very beſt quality, and few but may be wrought with advantage. The varieties which abound in the pariſhes of Buchanan, Killearn, Fintry, and 2 few other places in that neighbourhood, are quite de- Litute of the ſmalleſt viſible remains of once organiſed matter, Some in the vicinity of Culcreuch are of 2 blu- ih colour, and admit of a fine polilh. The coarſer kinds abound with a conſiderable'proportion of clay. The high price of coal in theſe pariſhes, deters huſbandmen from burning ſo much of it as they would otherwiſe do. Some of it 35 burnt with peat, immenſe quantities of which gene- rally