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fewn over the land at their firft appearance.—* 

 Branches of elder with the leaves bruifed, drawn 

 in a gate over them. — Mufk mixed with the feed 

 before it is fown. — And fulphur burnt under it, 

 after moiftening it with water in which tobacco 

 has been ftecped. 



But mowers on the plants as foon as they appear 

 above ground, are the belt prefervatives. They 

 enfeeble and kill the fly, and haften the plants 

 into the rough leaf, in which ftate they are out of 

 -danger. 



When the plants have got five leaves, they 

 fhould Be hoed, and fet out at leaft fix inches apart. 

 A month afterwards, or earlier if it be a wet feafbn, 

 a fecond hoeing fhould take place, and the plants 

 be left at lead fourteen inches diftant from each 

 other, efpccially if intended for feeding cattle; 

 for where the plants are left thicker, they will be 

 proportionably' fmaller, unlefs the land is very 

 rich indeed. 



Some of our beft farmers fow turnips in drills 

 three feet afunder, and at a fecond hoeing leave 

 them a foot apart in the rows. By this means the 

 trouble and expence of hoeing is much lefTencd, 

 and the crop of equal weight as when fown in the 



common 



