j^^6 SiriHures on P arm- Management near London, Nov. 



it, and the turnips fown on the new drills. To have a good 

 crop, the work ought to be completed from the beginning to the 

 middle of June. 



When the turnips have got four rough leaves, the intervals 

 mud be gathered up by the fmall plough, to bury as many weeds 

 as poliible •, or it mufh be ilirred by the (kimming plough or horfe- 

 hoe, as direfted for beans. After this, the turnips are thinned to 

 fingle plants, at about ten or twelve inches afunder, and all the 

 weeds deftroyed by the hand-hoe. When a fecond fet of weeds 

 come up, the (liimmer and hand-hoe are ufed a fecond time, and 

 then the turnips are earthed up by the plough with two mould- 

 boards. 



During the progrefs of all tlicfe operations, efpecial care mud 

 be taken to clear out all the water furrows in every part of the 

 field, as each operation is apt to obftruc!^ them very much. 



The greateft obje6lion to turnips in ftrong foils, is the poach- 

 ing, which is almoft unavoidable, either in eating them on the 

 ground by llieep, or in carrying them off. The only way to a- 

 vold this, is, to carry them in panniers on horfeback ; or they 

 may be taken off in carts during troft. 



The next article which I have to notice is the lime hufbandry, 

 and it is an important one ; for the poffeffion of land conftitu- 

 tionally difpofed to receive benefit from a calcareous application, 

 may fafely be confidered as a mod: defireable affair to every good 

 hulbandman ; though in your cafe it is unneceffary to enlarge 

 upon its advantages. 



Lime is one of the greateft means of improvement in this 

 country, and is ufed both on land newly broken up from a ftate 

 of nature, and on old tillage or grafs land ; but, owing to the 

 vaft diitance of lime from your property, I have not ventured to 

 recommend it, even as an experiment on a fmall fcale. Befides, 

 from the gr^at quantity of calcareous matter, or chalky or marly 

 particles, contained in the gait or fubfoil on your eflate, it appears 

 to me that all the improvement, deriveable from lime or marl, 

 may be procured, with you, merely by ploughing a little deeper 

 than ordinary, fo as to turn up a part of the gait, and to mix it 

 intimately with the foil. 



This matter will need, however, to be managed with deli- 

 cacy and caution •, as it will require patient experiment, and fome 

 continuance of experience, to aicertain, with certainty, whether 

 the mixture of the gait with the cultivated foil is attended with 

 advantage, and to what degree. For this purpofe, I would re- 

 commend the effay to be made in the following manner. 



In one of your fallow fields, let two or three ridges in the 

 middle of the field be ploughed, before winter, a little deeper 

 than the red, fo as to turu an iiitli or iftore Qf the golt to the 



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