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rowing. The quitch-grafs was drawn out by the 
quitch-rake, and burnt on the land. After thefe 
operations, which cleanfed, levelled, and pulverized 
the land about fix inches and half deep, one field of 
four acres was thrown on to ridges by one bout of 
the plough, three feet from the centre of one ridge 
to the centre of the other. A triangular fled of 
_ wood, drawn by one horfe, and held by a boy, was 
pafied at the bottom of each furrow, to make them 
_ about two feet wide.* In thefe furrows fome long 
wet ftraw from the farm-yard, half rotted, was lain, 
abont ten common carts per acre; the ridges were 
then fplit, and reverfed, throwing all the pulverized 
foil on to the dung, if it deferved that name; one 
horfe and a boy, with a long bar of wood with 
handles, beat down the tops of two ridges at once, 
leaving a furface about 18 inches wide, and prepared 
the land for drilling. The horfes then walked in 
one furrow, each wheel occupied another, and four 
rows of turnips were drilled on the top of two 
ridges, 114 inches from row to row, ofi each ridge, 
and 22: inches interval. 
As foon as the turnips were in rough leaf, the 
sorn {carificators were paffed through them, a furrow 
was taken from each fide of the ridge with the com- 
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* This operation was merely to widen the bottoms of the fur- 
rows, fo that the rows of turnips might be exaétly over the manure, 
_ and is by no means neceflary when turnips are fown without manure, 
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