. Scottish geographical magazine. Beans and peas,[Potatoes, Green crons i TurniPs and crops. WIangold> I Cabbage, vetches, etc-., Fife, acres. Forfar, acres 322,844! 559,171J 9,994 8,227 21,731 29,958 38,852 48,008 957 540 1447 645 14,552 12,222 23,899 33,623 121 159 1142 840 1 i40 acres=l square mile=259 hectares. BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SCOTLAND. 625 Clover, sainfoin, and grasses under pasture, or grass not broken up ~|in rotation, and not including mountain and heath land, .Small fruit, fallow, etc., -ife, acres. Forfar, acres. 66,704 88,398 75,221 534
. Scottish geographical magazine. Beans and peas,[Potatoes, Green crons i TurniPs and crops. WIangold> I Cabbage, vetches, etc-., Fife, acres. Forfar, acres 322,844! 559,171J 9,994 8,227 21,731 29,958 38,852 48,008 957 540 1447 645 14,552 12,222 23,899 33,623 121 159 1142 840 1 i40 acres=l square mile=259 hectares. BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SCOTLAND. 625 Clover, sainfoin, and grasses under pasture, or grass not broken up ~|in rotation, and not including mountain and heath land, .Small fruit, fallow, etc., -ife, acres. Forfar, acres. 66,704 88,398 75,221 534 312 The chief crops of the arable land are therefore oats, turnips, barley,potatoes, and the rotation grasses which occupy the land from one tofour years. Forfar and Fife are in this respect typical Scottish with a northern English district like West Yorkshire, the chiefdifferences in the crops of these counties are : (a) the very small acreageof mangolds, a crop more suited to a drier and warmer summer; (b) the. Fig. 2.—The Valley of the Tay and Carse of Gowrie from Kinnoull Hill. Perth. In theforeground, woods on the steep slope* of Kinnoull. The distant plain is wheatland. The Ochils of Northern Fife form the background. (JBepi Ill from photo by Messrs. ?. ad Sons, Ltr>.. smaller proportion of wheat grown ; (c) the large proportion of arableland as compared wTith permanent pasture in the upland farms. Two zones of cultivation are shown on the maps, but these do notrepresent the farmland so fully as might be done on maps on a largerscale. In the upper or no-wheat zone, there are two distinct faim-rotations. (a) An upper, or that of upland farms, where oats, turnips,and grass occupy the land ; farms of this kind extend up to the moor-land and are not uncommon at 1000 feet altitude, or even up to 1250 feet.(b) A zone where barley and potatoes are included in the upper limit of this cultivation is lower than that of the upperrotation, but in f
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