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giilkrly fpread in the path of the drill previous to 

 the Towing the feed, would be fufficient for the 

 purpofe. 



A plentiful crop of turnips, or of artificial grafTca, 

 is a matter of very great importance to a farmer 

 who has a large flock of cattle to feed ; it there- 

 fore merits his mod ferious attention, how and by 

 what means he may render the growth of thofe ar- 

 ticles more cbnftant and certain, which in the 

 common courfe of practice are very precarious, 

 and not to be depended upon. For this purpofe, 

 I would advife him to keep twenty, thirty, or fifty 

 loads (the quantity proportioned to the extent of 

 his farm) of a good compofi: always by him, ready 

 prepared, to be ufed as occafion may require. This 

 rhay be done at a very moderate expence in the 

 following manner: 



Of a field that is conveniently fituatcd, plough 

 and harrow the headlands, till the foil be well di- 

 vided and in fine tilth ; then take a cart-load, or 

 forty bulliels, of good ftrong well-burnt lime, frefli 

 from the kiln, and place it in little heaps, about a 

 bufhel in each, along the middle of the faid head- 

 lands, about four feet diftant from each other. This 

 done, with a fhovel cover the heaps of lime with 

 four or five times its quantity of pulverized earth, 



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