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to about three chaldrons ;* and in that of the latter, from eight to ten or fifteen 

 ordinary cart-loads, according to the circumftances and nature of the land ; as 

 in this way fuch matters may become the moft perfectly blended and incorpo 

 rated with the mould of the foil. Lime is fuccefsfully made ule of for this crop 

 in Yorkmire, and moft other dirrricls where it can be procured. And the ufe of 

 marl has been attended with equal benefit in the county of Norfolk in England, 

 and Angus in Scotland. | The former would feem to be the moft proper on 

 fuch forts of land as are inclined to be in fome meafure ftiffand adheftve. 



When dung can be procured, the experience of different cultivators of the 

 turnip, however, mews that it is the moft fuited to the growth of the root. For 

 fuch foils as pofiefs a fufficient degree of lightnefs, and are in a fine mellow con* 

 dition, that which is become confiderably reduced by fermentation, or in a more 

 rotten and Ihort ftate, may be the moft proper, as it can be the moft intimately 

 incorporated with them ; but where they have greater ftiffnefs and cohefion, 

 the longer kinds may be more beneficial, as they will not only tend to prefervc 

 fuch lands in a more open and porous fituation, but, by their gradual decay in 

 the earth, render them more mellow. Some, however, think it the moft pro 

 per when it is neither in a very Ihort nor very long ftate, but in a medium condi 

 tion between fuch extremes.* Compofts confifting of dung and different forts 

 of materials, as maiden earth, marl, and the mortary rubbifh from old walls, in 

 the proportions of one-fifth, well mixed, by having the dung laid over them in 

 the winter, and afterwards blended together more intimately by turning before 

 they are made ufe of, have alfo been employed with fuccefs.|| The duft of malt, or 

 what is frequently termed combs, is likewife another fubftance that the fame 

 writer has recommended as an ufeful application in the way of manure in the 

 culture of turnip crops. And the dung of rabbits, pigeons, and poultry, chop 

 ped rags, rape cake, river weeds, and other fimilar matters, may frequently 

 be employed. 



Dung, when employed as manure for this fort of crop, fhould vary in fome mea 

 fure in the manner of its application, according to the nature of the land and 

 the mode in which the root is cultivated : in general, however, it ought to be 

 depofited in the foil as nearly as poflible to the period at which the feed is 

 fown ; as in this method, in confequence of the new fermentation that muft 



* Thirty-two bufhels. 



t Corrected Agricultural Report of the North Riding of Yorkftiirc; and Dcwaldfon s [&quot;Modern 

 Agriculture, vol. II. 



I Corrected Agricultural Report of Suffolk. 

 j[ Kent s Hints, p. 112. 



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