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turnips to him, and lie ])]aces them in the fiiiTow made by 

 tlie plough. One ploug'hing- then with the common plough 

 completes the business, by turning- the earth to the turnips 

 and covering- them to the necks ; if not quite so neat as you 

 wish, a man with a hoe will quickl}' and easily make it 

 perfect. By this means, I believe the plants will resist 

 almost any frost, will be ready when wanted, cannot draw 

 the g-round, and scarcely a turnip will be rotten. 



Journal of ike R. A. S. E., vol. vii. part 1. 



Art. LXVIIL— cultivation OF WHEAT. 



By the Editor of the "Agricultural Gazette." 



Wheat -sovt^iNG has doubtless commenced more than a 

 month ago in the bleaker parts of the country ; whilst in 

 others the autumn seed-time will not be over for a couple of 

 months to come. There are several points connected with 

 the practice, on which the widest difference of opinion exists. 

 Among these is the propriety of growing it after corn crops, 

 which, as the ordinary rule in farming, we cannot but deny ; 

 the propriety of making this the crop in the rotation to 

 which farm-manure is chiefly ajtplied, which we very much 

 doubt ; and the propriety of using much or little seed per 

 acre, which necessarily depends upon the circumstances 

 imder which the crop is grown. In reference to the first of 

 these, as experience has already suificiently indicated, the 

 necessity, as a general rule, of growing corn crops, or crops 

 for sale, alternately with green crops, or crops for consump- 

 tion on the land, there is but little need to appeal to the 

 theory of the matter. It is sufficient to say, that, under any 

 circumstances, the sale of ]n-oduce, and especially where it is 

 in the concentrated form of grain, is necessarily an injury to 

 the land, which, until we better know how to replace its 

 loss, should not be permitted oftener than once in two years. 

 The interval permits the operation of fallowing, with the 

 growth of a fallow crop, and thus enables us to clean the 

 land and to restore its fertility. 



As regards the second point above mentioned, it is only 

 necessary to say, that where this alternate system of hus- 

 bandry prevails, the bulky, crude, and coarse manures so 



