Cuftti&twn of Arable Land.- Stuedi/h TurnipTime and Method of facing. 



leclcd, the cultivator can never be certain of having his plants of the proper fort. 

 The quantity of feed that is made ufe of where the broadcaft method is employed 

 is generally from about two to three pounds the acre, but where the drill plan is 

 purfued a fmallcr proportion maybe fiifficient ; but as it is moftly found difficult 

 to produce a Efficient plant, it may be advifable never to be too fparing in the ar 

 ticle of feed. New feed is conftantly to be preferred, and when the feafon is dry 

 it , may be of utility to have it prepared by deeping. 



Time and method of/owing. As this plant is much flower in its vegetation 

 than that of the common turnip, it ought to be put into the ground at an earlier 

 perioq ; by which means it will not only be more forward for the hoe, and more 

 fully eftablifhed in the foil, but better protected from the attacks of the fly and 

 the heats of the enfuing fummer months. It has been the ufual practice to fow 

 this crop at the fame time with that of the common turnip ; but if put in three 

 vvecksor a month .fooner it will be found more advantageous, as from about the 

 tenth of April to the tenth of May, or perhaps a little later in the northern dif- 

 tricls.* 



And it may be ufeful in many cafes to put in a fecond crop in June ; or where the 

 firft has been deft royed by the fly, to re-fow the land after being well fcuffled over. 



Different methods are practifed in railing this fort of crop : fometimes in- 

 flead offowing the feed over the land in broadcaft or drills, it is fown upon beds 

 of good earth j and after the plants are fufliciently advanced, as when they are 

 about the fize offmall cabbage-plants, they are tranfplanted into the field, and 

 jfet out in rows at a diftance of eight or nine inches from each other, and a foot or 

 more in the intervals. The bufmefs of tranfplanting fhould, if poffrble, be per 

 formed when the weather is moift. 



This may be the beft method where fuch crops are cultivated only upon a final! 

 fcale ; but where they are grown more extenfively, the former are to be preferred,, 

 as being more expeditious and convenient, as well as more certain of affording a: 

 fufficient plant. 



And in this mode of fowing, the feed mould be put in where the plants are to- 

 grow, as they do not anfwer fo well where tranfplanted even under the rnoft fa 

 vourable circumftances. 



Aflcr-adlure. In tnis part of its management, the Swediih turnip, from its- 

 growing- in a more flow manner than the common one, requires more attention, 

 in. order that it may be kept perfectly clean and free from weeds, which, under. 



* Corrected Reports of the Northern Counties of Scotland, and Nottinghamshire. 



