Agricultural Surveys: Fife (1800)

acre advantage agriculture allowed annually applied Auchtermuchtie barley beans bolls breed Burntisland carried cattle clean clover common turnip consequently considerable quantity cows crop cultivated culture Cupar drain drills Dunfermline dung earth effect encrease equal expence extent farm farmer feeding feet fences Fife firlots flax furrow grass ground harrow horses husbandry improvement inches inclosing Inverkeithing Kirkaldy labour laid land landlord lease less lime manufactured manure Markinch meal ment mills mixed necessary nerally oats object parish Pasture pease perhaps period Pittenweem plants plough potatoes present principal produce profit proper proportion proprietor raised red fallow render respect ridges rise of rent rotation royal burghs rye-grass Scotland Scots SECT seed seldom soil sometimes sowing sown stones stooks straw sufficient supposed tenant ther thirlage tillage tion trustees turnip usually weather weeds wheat whole yards