Cultivation of Arable Land. Turnips Quantity of Seed proper for. 1 3 1 



Rape cake, when brought into a powdery form by mills* conftructed for the 

 purpofe, is dated to have been ufed in Norfolk by Mr. Styleman, an intelligent 

 cultivator, with much fuccefe, in the proportion of a quavter ^ r a ton to the 

 acre; I the powder being placed over the feed in the drills by means of Mr. 

 Cook s drill machine, merely by fubftituting proper cups and funnels. In Mr. 

 Coke s practice the rape cake duft is drilled at the fame time with the turnip 

 feed from the fame machine. This has been a common manure in Norfolk 

 ufed by being fown over the land in a coarfe powder five or fix weeks before 

 the turnip feed is put in; but in Mr. Coke s management, by having it ground 

 into a perfect powder, it is not found necefTary to be applied before hand. 

 And in this way a ton is fufficient for fix acres inftead of three. This method 

 may alfo be adopted with various other forts of manures, fuch as bone duft, coal 

 and wood afhes, foot dried, and powdered pigeons dung, night- foil in powder, 

 and many other fimilar materials. The foot will, however, require fome other 

 fubftance to be blended with it, in order that it may be delivered more evenly. 

 Thefe are cheap methods of applying manures for thefe crops, and which have 

 the effect of promoting the quick growth of the young plants, which is of much 

 advantage in preferving the turnips from the fly.* When river weeds, which 

 have been tried with fuccefs in the fame county by Mr. Coke and Mr. Branthwaite, 

 are made ufe of, they are laid on the ground in their wet ftate immediately after 

 being removed from the water, and as foon as pofHble turned in by a light furrow. 

 This fubftance, from the danger of the vegetation of the feeds, can probably only 

 be ufed with propriety on fuch foils as are of a very dry quality. 



There is dill another method of providing and applying manure for this crop, 

 practifed in fome diftricts ;|| which is that of folding fheep on the land after the 

 firft ploughing of it up, until the feed earth is given. As the treading of the ani 

 mals may often be apt to render the land fo hard and compact as to be afterwards 

 reduced to the proper ftate of pulverifation with difficulty, it may be the beft 

 practice in fuch cafes only to ufe the fold in dry weather, always ploughing the 

 ground lightly over as foon as podible after the fheep are removed. 



Quantity of Seed. It is difficult to afcertain the proportion of feed that may 



* The mills employed for this purpofe, according to Mr. Kent s Report, are constituted each of 

 two cylinders revolving towards each other ; the firft breaking the cake into pieces of the Size of a wal 

 nut by means of cogged cylinders ; while the other reduces it into powder by plain cylinders fimikr to 

 thofe employed in reducing clay for the forming of bricks. 



+ The expence in 1796 was not more than il. 5s. + Farmer s Calendar. 



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f| Corrected Agricultural Reports of Norfolk and Hertfordshire. 



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