36 THE FARMER'S MANUAL, 



Transplanting. 



" This is a third mode of cultivating the Ruta Ba- 

 ga, and in certain cases far preferable to either of the 

 others. My large crops at Body, (England,) were 

 from roots transplanted. 



" I prepared one field of five acres, arid another of 

 twelve, with ridges in the manner described for sowing, 

 and on the 7th of June, in the first field, and on the 

 20th of July in the 2d, I set my plants, as in sowing, 1 2 

 inches asunder. I ascertained to an exactness, that 

 there were thirty-three tons to the acre, throughout 

 the whole 17 acres, and after this, I have never used 

 any other method. 



" In my usual order, the rows 4 feet asunder on 

 the ridges, there are ten thousand eight hundred and 

 thirty turnips on each acre of ground ; and therefore 

 for an acre of ground to produce thirty- three tons, 

 each turnip must weigh nearly 7lbs. 



<; From a large field I afterwards set on the 13th 

 of July, I weighed one waggon load, which averaged 

 eleven pounds each, and several weighed 14lbs. which 

 would probably give fifty tons to the acre. 



" I will now give a full account of my transplant- 

 ing at Hyde-Park, (Long-Island, in America,) between 

 the 21st and 28th of August ; the season remarkably 

 dry. 



" The plants will succeed best when set in fresh 

 earth, or earth recently moved by the plough. 



" When we have our plants, and hands all ready, 

 the ploughman begins, and turns in the ridges, (which 

 have been prepared as before stated ;) that is, he 

 turns the ground back again, so that the tup of the 

 new ploughed ridge, stands over the place where the 

 deep furrow was before he began. As soon as he 

 has finished the first ridge, the planters begin to set, 

 while he is ploughing the 2d, and so on through the 

 field. This process is not very tedious, for in, 

 1816, I had fifty-two acres of Ruta Baga planted in 



