THE CULTIVATION OF FARM CROPS. 54 j 



chemical substances applied as manures, yet if the latter are well mixed 

 with the pulverised agillaceous earth, they will have no tendency 

 produce anything like grossness of structure. 



The success of root culture is also, in a great measure dependent on 



judicious summer management. A delay, in moist growing weather of a 



k, or two, or even of a l-w days, in thinning the turnip crop, will 



frequently reduce the yield by several tons per acre. Or, if the thinning 



k is improperly executed, the result may be no better. It is an old 



hat a farmer should never have the oversight of the work 

 thinning his own turnips. In all probability he will think that the 

 crop is iM-iug spoiled by severe thinning, while the very reverse is tli.- 

 . A considerable amount of skill is required to manage the turnij 

 p in a proper manner; and, without good management, the heaviest 

 I of the bulbs need not be expected. 



i of the success of root culture, in the best farmed districts depends 

 on the careful storing of the crop, and judicious consumption of it by 

 i junction with grain. In this way, it will be observed, that 

 subject of root cultivation can never be treated altogether by itself; 

 directly, and in a most important manner, on the economy of 

 k -feeding and manure making. Indeed, were it dissociated from the 

 T branches of farm management, the whole practice of agricult 

 would require to be established on a totally new basis. 



I tru< the time is not far distant, when by good management in 

 our feeding root crops, they may be increased in weight over 

 idard at least from one-third to one-half. With such 

 >uld be ;in immense addition to the home-made man 

 of the farm , the soil would attain a higher state of fertility ; the farm 



. -mid In- and the ncultural returns of arv 



ally enhanced. 



Mi's, Th- soiU lu.-xt adapted for the cultivation of turnips are un 

 ..-ilily those .f a fiv.- working loamy character a fertih- well- 

 it i> on new land or freshly turned sod, that they are 

 :'ul. An untiled virgin earth, with the rich dre^in^ ol'a 

 IMI ruing of accumulated vegetable n 



is th- surest 'and m.l pi for a 



nip -Mich land n-.-d> no manure. 



' he case of the lighter -viiU under ridg-- cult i vat ion, and MI pp. 

 land to have IM-.-U manured with lifteen load-, ,,f m :,ed 



under in autumn, plough. -d in --arly sprin 



r or gruhiM-r, prr; DO w to be made for the seed tu 



