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Good Afternoon, Unfortunately there has been a break in to a house in Edgehead Village, Midlothian. The house was unoccupied between Friday 9th December 2011 and Monday 12th December 2011, but it is strongly suspected …
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![Dist:0.3km<br/>On Salter's Road [A6094], just south of the access to the new part of the A68 [Dalkeith bypass].](http://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/20/43/1204341_521255af_120x120.jpg "NT3468 : Rookery at Newfarm")
![Dist:0.4km<br/>From Salter's Road [A6094], with the new A68 Dalkeith bypass in the left distance.](http://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/20/44/1204454_c02f6443_120x120.jpg "NT3468 : Farmland near Smeaton Head")
![Dist:0.6km<br/>Whoever complained that a Classical education confers no practical benefits?
"Two other circumstances have contributed much to raise the rent of this parish, which, 40 years ago, was not more than L. 1, or L. 1, 5 s. per acre. The first was the dividing, and afterwards inclosing, about 700 acres of land in the fields of Inveresk, the property of many different feuers of that Lordship, about 35 years ago. The second was the introduction of two-horse ploughs without a driver. The writer of this account, and Dr Grieve, then minister of Dalkeith, having each of them entered into the possession of small farms in the higher parts of their respective parishes, in the year 1768, being acquainted with the practice of the ancients in that particular, and having observed the wheel plough with two horses, held and driven by one man, successfully used for some years within the park of Dalkeith, resolved to make trial of that method in their farms, though of a strong clay soil. They began with horses, and in a short time trained oxen likewise to the same operation. They were laughed at in the beginning by the neighbouring farmers; but when the second year came round, and the luxuriance of their crops was observed, their example was immediately followed by all their neighbours. The practice spread itself gradually all around, and for many years there has been no plowing in all the Lothians, or in the Merse, but with two horses and one man; while, at the same time, the instrument itself has been cheapened and amended by Mr Small of Dalkeith's improvement on the Scotch plough. It is obvious how much this change must have contributed to lessen the expence of tillage, and to raise the rent of land." -- 'Jupiter' Carlyle, minister of Inveresk, Old Statistical Account, 1792
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