M8 Cultivation of ArablcLand. Turnips* Methods of facing of. Drilling. 



lidge of proper height, fomewhat in this way A. The work is then to be 

 continued in a fimilar method throughout the whole field, which when finally 

 accompli ft ed will have the appearance of alternate ridge and furrow, fomewhat 

 in this manner AAAAAAAA. A diftance, as has been obfervcd above, of from 

 about twenty-feven to thirty inches is preferved between the ridglets, in order to 

 admit of the plough pafiing between them in the after-culture of the crop, but 

 which in lefs diftances cannot be the cafe. 



After the bufinefs has proceeded in this way, the manure is to be placed in the 

 drills ; which is the moft conveniently effected by employing fmall carts, and 

 having them to proceed along either every third or every fifth furrow, depofit- 

 ing it in fmall heaps in them ; proper perfons with fmall three-pronged forks 

 being ftationed fo as to follow and place it in an even and regular manner in 

 the bottoms of the three or five furrows, or thofe in which the manure is drop 

 ped from the carts and thofe on each fide of them. After this has been accom- 

 pliflied, the fmall ridges before thrown up are fplit down, the earth from each 

 covering the manure up in the middle, fo as to form new ridges in the -fame 

 manner as before. The tops of thefe ridges are then to be flattened by fome 

 means or other: the moft common is a fmall light roller, that pafTes along two 

 of them at once. The turnip feed is then put in exactly in the middle of the 

 flattened parts of the ridges, by means of a drill contrived for the purpofe, and 

 which is frequently fattened to the flattening roller by a rope fix or feven feet 

 in length, and directed behind by a perfon for the purpofe. The bufinefs, when 



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finimed, appearing in this way &quot; A/ ^ V ~ A/ ~ A/ ^@^ A ^ V ~ ; S rcprefenting the feed, 



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and D the manure immediately underneath it. Moft of the drill barrows are 

 implements that may he attached to the ploughs in the fame manner. The 

 Toilers and drills are moftly drawn -by a fingle horfe, driven by a boy ; but the 

 perfor that regulates the latter may alfo direct the horfe, when it is properly 

 trained and accuftomed to the work.* Sometimes, inftead of the roller, a kind 

 of fled, made of wood or iron, is employed for flattening the furface of the one- 

 bout ridges; but a light roller feems to be the neatert and moft convenient 

 implement. 



The operations of forming the ridglets and inclofing the manure in them, arc 

 generally, in the northern diftricts, performed by a common light fwing-plough ; 

 but they may probably be accompliihed with greater expedition and regularity 

 by a light double-mould-boarded plough. 



* Correded Agricultural Report of Northumberland* 



