[54.14 are almoſt the only extraneous ones to be found in this di- ſtrict, and are beſt adapted for the improvement of all new

lands. How this difadvantage could be remedied will be Mhown elſewhere.

The lands in ſome villages, belonging to different proprie- tors, or poſſeſled by different tenants, being intermixed, or in runrig and rundale, as it is called, are leſs eaſily improved than they would be, were they properly divided.

The want of ſkilful labourers and country artificers is an- other obſtacle to improvements. There is a want of day labourers for occaſional"employment, which ſomewhat retards agriculture."The women, by their averſion from working in the field, at hoeing turnips, and the like very light buſineſs in general, occaſion ſome difliculty to the huſbandman in the proſecution of his labours at particular ſeaſons; but this ſilly local prejudice among them is faſt removing.

The liberty which moſt of the farmers enjoy, by the cuſ- tom of the country, to ſell ſtraw and corn from their poſſeſ- ſions, renders the manure colleCted upon them leſs plentiful than otherwiſe it would be. Were ſlates or tiles, or perhaps even heath, uſed for covering roofs inſtead of ſtraw, ſome more putreſcent manure might be procured.

The houſes and farm oflices poſſeſſed by the feuers in ge- neral, in Kinroſsſhire; are very much in the ſtyle of thoſe poſ- ſcſled by the meaneſt tenants in other diſtricts, being too few in number,(ſmall and incommodious, and withal ill placed. They want almoſt every where that clean,“ nug,: thrifty ap- Dearance which marks the refidence of proprietors. Itis on- 1y of late that a few of them have begun to plant ſome trees

near their habitations; and the ornament by planting marks the