. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ed and scanty beyond description,corresponding with their shabby exterior. In the woods of the park at Bute were formerly finespecimens of Swiss cottages and other fancy woodenbuildings. {Jig. 1135.) 3. Occupation. In estimating the size of Hebridean farms, the com-mon plan is to attend to three leading objects; first,the number of live stock which
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ed and scanty beyond description,corresponding with their shabby exterior. In the woods of the park at Bute were formerly finespecimens of Swiss cottages and other fancy woodenbuildings. {Jig. 1135.) 3. Occupation. In estimating the size of Hebridean farms, the com-mon plan is to attend to three leading objects; first,the number of live stock which the farms in questioncan maintain ; secondly* the number of bolls of can be sown, or of ploughs requisite for theirtillage; and, thirdly, the quantity of keip that can bemade upon them. Grazing farms, whether for sheep or cattle, mustgradually be enlarged ; and kelp, or merely agriculturalfarms, must as naturally become limited and confinedin point of extent. The hay on many of the grass-farms, and sometimes the corn on arable grounds, is obligedto be dried by hanging on poles, trees, or rods {Jig- 1136.), as inSweden. 1136 The dorr-maik, or wooden tongs, for drawing thistles, from those in use in England. 1137. ^M 5. Arable Land. Tillage is in its infancy over the Hebrides, in all the islesnorthward of Mull; excepting half a dozen farms in Skye, apart of MLeod, of Rasays estate, two farms in Uist, and alittle latelv done in Lewis, near Stornaway, and by Campbell,of Islay, on a small island between North Uist and improvements have been carried on within the last fif-teen years. It would be rather ludicrous than useful to describe the til-lage generally practised in the Hebrides ; and, accordingly, weshall not dwell upon it, or insult the common seme of the na-tives, by seriously requesting ihem to abandon the many barba-rous customs which have so long disgraced their country. Aman walking backwards, with his face towards four horsesab
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