1 C 8 Cultivation of Arabh Land, Turnips Preparation proper for. 



to.* Other cultivators, however, advife the firft: ploughing to be to the full depth, 

 and that the after-ploughings and- harro wings be continued to the middle of June. t 

 Thefe mutt, however, in general be regulated by rhe nature of the foil, the circum- 

 dances of the feafon, and the convenience of the agricultor. But when the feed 

 is put in after grain, early peas, tare, or other fimilar crops, the preparation is fel- 

 dom extended to fo many ploughings. In fome diftricts two ploughings and har- 

 rowings, the ftubble and weeds being at each operation brought together and con- 

 furned on the land, are found fufficient with the feed earth. + In others, where 

 turnip crops are made to fuccccd clover orgrafs feeds, it is the practice to pafture 

 the land in the fpring with fheep tofo late a period as only to admit of ploughing 

 two or three times. And the fowing of this fort of crop on old pafture land upon 

 one earth, is like wife ftated as a fuccefsful practice on the experience of fevcral 

 years ; the method of management in which is to plough the land pretty deep in 

 winter, eating any grafs that may arife from the edges of the flag clofe by fheep, 

 and afterwards, before the feed is put in, reducing it well by harrowing, u Thefe arc 

 not, however&amp;gt; modes of practice that are in general to be attempted, though they 

 may fucceed in particular inftances. But in many cafes, after the furface of coarfe 

 pafture and other old grafs lands have been reduced by means of paring and burn 

 ing, good crops of this root may be grown on one earth, or by once ploughing 

 over the land, theafhes being previoufly fpread on the furface in as equal a manner 

 as poflible. The ploughing in thefe cafes fhould be performed to only a flight 

 depth, in order that the crop may derive the fulleft advantage from the action of 

 the fire and the faline principles of the manure on the foil. The Norfolk heavy 

 drill roller is very effective in thefe cafes when pafTed over the land before and im 

 mediately after the fowing of the feed. 



The principal aim of the agricultor in the culture of this root mould conftantly, 

 however, be that of rendering the foil on which it is to be grown as fine and mel- 

 lo w as the nature of the land will admit ; as without fuch cultivation his expectations 

 mud be frequently difappointed. 



In regard to. the application of manure for turnip crops, in the firft methods 

 of preparing the land, and where it is of the calcareous kind, as lime, marl, or 

 other firmlar fubftances, it may be the beft practice to apply it after the fecond 

 or third ploughings, in the firft kind, in the proportion of from one and a half 



* Kent s HintSj p. 110. 



t Corrected Agricultural Report of the County of Suffolk. 

 | Corrofted Agricultural Report of the County of Middlefex. 

 . | Corrected Agricultural Report of the North Rising of Yorkfliire. 



