i^4 ^'^ Btcrhtg up Turrt7psfor Winter Confumptton^ l^c. Aug', 



chances. In a dry feafon, the tranfplanted are befl: ; in a rainy, 

 I know no material difference. Never tranfplant them but on 

 new-formed ridges, which ought always to be previoufly rolled 

 in the fame way as for fowing the common turnip. The only 

 advantage arlfing from tranfplanting is that, when the ground is 

 not fo very well prepared as it ought, it gives three weeks longer 

 time for the prenantion of the ground, which in dry weather 

 may get two more furrows, it being impoflible to pulverize the 

 ground too well for fuch a fmall feed. To give the annual feeds 

 fln opportunity of vegetating, I always harrow immediately after 

 ploughing, and very often have the harrows going before the 

 field is all ploughed. Though this practice be as yet adopted 

 by very few be fides myfelf, i hope foon to fee every farmer in 

 the country, for his own interefl, follow the example. Rolling 

 is abfolutely necc^iTary before ridging, as it defends from drought 

 better than as l^ft by the harrows. Rolling is not a very tedi- 

 ous operation. To roll a week before ridging, you will have a 

 fine braird of annuals, which the ridging kills entirely. Thefe 

 operations are not yet univerfally known with us ; but I can af- 

 fure you they are abfolutely neceflary for a good crop. 



3. I would not advife to rilk a whole crop of Swedifli turnip, 

 as the quantity is in proportion as 3 is to 5 in favour of the 

 common turnip. For milk cows, the Swedifh, however, are 

 Dearly equals they give the milk a better tafl:e, and the butter 

 an excellent colour — nothing (hort of July. I fed a colt laft 

 winter with this root, and am now feeding him this winter alfo \ 

 and he is in as thriving a condition as if he had got four feeds 

 of oats per day — giving him plenty of flraw always. 



I received a fmall quantity of your Swedifli turnip-feed, for 

 which 1 am much obliged to you. You'll pleafe accept of a little 

 of mine, of crops 1802 and 1803. I always find that old and 

 new feeds ought to be fown together, and that, as the new 

 comes up two days fooner than the old, the plants may thus be 

 faved from the depredation of that fmall infetl which devours 

 them greedily as foon as they appear j but the danger is over 

 when we get rain. 



I am very happy to h.ear that your ideas and mine correfpond 

 with regard to feeds being adulterated, by their proximity to 

 one another when in bloiTom. I have alfo obferved that the blof- 

 fom (landing nearefl the fouth, is not fo apt to be infected/ as 

 that on the north fide : Of the former, the blofTom always ex- 

 pands to tlie fun; and that on the north is more ready to receive 

 iheforifiic or dull, by the four hern gales, which often happen 

 on a fun-lliining day. Some may fay that bees carry the dull to 



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