FEED FOR SHEEP. £3 



IV. 



Comparative Experiments on the Culture and Application of 

 Kohl Rabi, Drum-headed Cabbage, and Swedish Turnips, 

 Communicated by Mr. John Saddington, of Finchley*. 



SIR, 



'EING actuated by the most patriotic motives, I beg 

 the favour of you to lay the following communication before 

 the Society of Arts, together with the plants herewith sent. 

 I will endeavour to give you an account, with as much bre- 

 vity as is in my power to render myself intelligible, of the 

 nature of the soil, the mode of cropping, and the produce 

 thereof. The plot of land being about two acres and a half, Piece of bad 

 and lying on a dead flat, I obtained leave in 1805 to under- ^ a r J^ e d d# un " 

 drain and break up the same, the grass being sour and use- 

 less. 



I cut two main drains, forty-two inches deep, gradually 

 rising at top to twenty-eight inches, to give a sufficient fall, 

 with sixteen branches twenty-four inches deep, rising to 

 sixteen inches, terminating at top like the letter Y : the 

 drains were wooded with elm, and laid with my own hands; 

 this work was done in February. The soil is a loam, with Soil, 

 clay and gravel under. On the 20th of March I sowed Sown with 

 .three bushels and a half of oats per acre, which produced oats > 

 thirty-nine bushels per acre, weighing forty-one pounds per 

 bushel. The straw was used, as it was threshed, for litter 

 to stalled oxen. The 28th of September seeded with win- and then win. 

 ter tares, four bushels of seed per acre. Ate them off in 

 May with sheep. Two fallow ploughings were given in Fallow plough- 

 June and August. About two hundred sheep were brought twlce » 

 in at nights by way of fold. The 11th of October sowed Sheep folded. 

 three bushels of Thanet wheat per acre. Brined and limed sown with 

 in Ma»ch, twice fed down with sheep. Produce, twenty- wheat, 

 nine bushels per acre, weighing fifty-nine pounds per bushel, 

 and very near three loads and a half of straw per acre. The 

 stubble was mowed and cleared off, and the land got ready 



* Trans, of th« Society of Arts, vol. XXVII, p. 75. 



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