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whole, or the greatest part of his turnip crop for several 

 years in autit-vn, intended to be consumed during the 

 following winter and spring, a practice which he found 

 attended with much convenience, economj and emolu- 

 me>); * 



5. The celebrated George Culley, has communicated 

 to ->e a f .:>, whir!;, "hough perhaps.known to many intel- 

 ligent farmer , may no. be so universally propagated as it 

 deserves to be. It i; this ; that all crude soils, or even 

 such soils as iuive been cultivated, but which have had 

 little or no calcareous matter mixed with them, will pro- 

 duce better turnips, with a good dose of lime or shell 

 marl only, without any dung whatever, than with dung 

 without any lime or other calcareous substance. This 

 he finds from long and repeated experience. 



It is said that the turnips in Berwickshire are seldom 

 injured by the fly. This may perhaps be attributed to 

 the superior culture, for which that district is so much 

 distinguished, by means of which the young plants are 

 enabled to push away at the beginning with more vigour 

 than when the management is less perfect; for it is a ge- 

 neral observation, that the more rapid the vegetation of 

 the plant, the better is it able to withstand the effect of 

 the insect's depredacions. 



It has been remarked in Banffshire, that mixing earth 

 or moss with the offals of fish, makes an excellent com- 

 post, particularly for turnips, and that the best turnips 

 are always after fish dung. This should be attended to ou 

 the sea coast, where such quantities of fish, and of fish 

 offal may be had. ? 



It may be proper to add, that since the stoppage of 

 the distillery, and the scarcity of grain for feeding milch- 



This useful communication is printed in the 22d vol. 

 of the Transactions cf ihc Society of Arts, p. 118. 



