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6th year, Oats ; 

 After which. Turnips. 



As the getting a crop of turnips is the foundation 

 on which you may mofl: reafonably build your 

 future hopes of fucccfs, it is a part of hulbandry 

 to which the farmer cannot pay too much attention. 

 The method I advife is, to carry all the rotten 

 dung and manure upon your oat-ftubbles immedi- 

 ately after harveft, (which fliould be the dung 

 made in your courts the preceding year) after 

 which plough it in; give another ploughing in 

 March if polTible; you will be then provided for 

 an early fowing, which, in my opinion, is the moft 

 probable way of fucceeding in your turnip crop.f 



As turnips upon poor lands cannot be raifed 

 without dung, I take it to be the farmer's intereft 

 to colled: as much as poflible, not fulfering any 



f The propriety of manuring the land for the turnip crop is in- 

 difputable; but if the dung be laid on the ftubble direftly after 

 harveft, it will lofe much of its ftrength before the feafon of turnip 

 lowing. The Suffolk and Norfolk farmers generally carry their 

 manure out of their farm-yards in the fpring, as foon as the cattle 

 quit them ; and by turning it over once about a month afterwards, 

 it becomes fufficiently rotten to be laid on the ground immediately 

 before the tur]\ips are fown. By this method abundant crops arc 

 produced. 



flraw. 



