4)0 On the Drilled Turnip Httjhandry of BernuiclJlAre, Nor* 



the fprinsjing of grafs ; but it has been difcovered that the fKirf 

 or rind is To thick and hard, as to (hake out the teeth of young 

 flock, efpeciilly of hogs (young flieep), and therefore they are 

 not much cuhivated by the farmers. 



Time of lowing. — DrilHng up the land, dunging and fowing, 

 commences about the fird of June, and is continued to the • 

 middle of July. The crops Town before or after thefe periods, 

 in Scotland, feldom turn to any account. From the loth to the 

 20th of June, is reckoned the very bed time for fowing. 



Horft'hoeing. — When the turnip plants are from one to three 

 or four inches high, or when the weeds begin to appear, a fmall 

 Jicjht fwinc^ plough of the common form, known in Scotland by 

 the name of Small's plough, drawn by one horfe, goes along 

 one fide of the ridge or drill, and turns ofF the earth from the 

 young plants, and returns by the other 'ii^q 

 for the fame purpofe, leaving the field in ^ J ^v#v^ 

 appearance thus : u^^^? -"P"- f^ ^^ 



In place of the light common plough, fometimes the catth is 

 turned off from each fide of the young plants by a machine, 

 mounted with two coulters, which cut from both fides at once, 

 and on fmooth land does the work equally well with the plough, 

 and more expeditiouily. 



Hand'koeing.-^Tvjo or three days after the earth is turned ofF 

 from the plants, the hoers go to work, ufmg a hoc from five to 

 eight inches broad, and, at one ftroke acrofs the ridge, cut the 

 weeds, and leave the turnips fufhcienily thinned. This work 

 colts about 2S. per acre. 



After being thus horfe and hand-hoed, the field remains in 

 the fame flate ten or fifteen days, and if the weeds grow fall, 

 the fame operation is repeated. The whole operation, both of 

 horfe and hand-hoeing, under ordinary circumftances, does not 

 amount to above 7s. per acre. 



Furroiv'ing up the Turnips, — The turnips being clean hoed, and 

 beginning to bottle, the earth lying between the rows, which 

 has been turned off, as above mentioned, from both fides of the 

 plants, is again laid up to them by a light double boarded plough, 

 drawn by one horfe. The operation^ is ^.^ ^^^ 

 then fiiiilhed, and the field or drills l^AAj%M^f^ 

 left in appearance thus: ''^"" ^- - 



Sometimes it happens that weeds, fuch as wild multard, &c. 

 grow up, and appear among the turnips after this lalt operation \ 

 in which cafe they are pulled up by the hands of women or chil- 

 dren, fo that by Auguil nothing is fcen 



but the tops or (haws of the turnips, ^??^^^^^5 

 covering the field thus : t^kjm^i^^ ' ^^^^ 



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