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ground with an infusion of elder, 

 wormwood, or tobacco. But it 

 must be done seasonably, as soon 

 as the plants are up. 



But if the young plants cannot 

 be saved, as it may sometimes so 

 happen, the ground ma)* be har- 

 rowed, and sowed ac;ain, the cost 

 of seed being but little, to com- 

 pare with the loss of a crop. 



When the plants have got five 

 or SIX leaves, they should be hoed, 

 and the plants cut out to six or 

 eight inches asunder. In the se- 

 cond hoeing, which should be three 

 or four weeks after the first, they 

 should be further thinned, to the 

 distance of fourteen or fifteen in- 

 ches ; especially if they are design- 

 ed for the feeding of cattle. The 

 roots growing at such a distance 

 will be large, so that what is want- 

 ing in number, will be more than 

 made up by their bulk. But if 

 they are designed for the table, 

 they need not be more than from 

 six to ten inches apart, as over- 

 grown ones are not so fit for this 

 purpose. 



Biit few have been hitherto rais- 

 ed in this country, tor the feeding 

 of cattle. But if our farmers would 

 follow the directions given above, 

 they would find it easy to raise 

 hundreds of bushels for their stocks. 

 Forty-seven tons have been the 

 crop of an Irish acre, as Mr Winn 

 Baker testifies, under his culture. 

 Those who have made no spirited 

 trials, will hardly conceive how 

 much the hoeings will increase 

 their crops. Even without hoeing, 

 where the weeds are suti'ered al- 

 most to stifle (hem. a crop of tur- 

 nips sometimes turns out to be 

 r,9 



profitable : How much more pro- 

 fitable may it be expected, if they 

 had sufficient room, and were not 

 robbed of their nourishment by 

 slaiiditig too near 'ogether ? 



In Engjlaiid, the drill husbandry 

 has been applied to turnips, and 

 the produce has exceeded those 

 sown broadcast, which have been 

 hand-hoed. The late Lord Vis- 

 count Townsend made a fair trial, 

 and found that the crop of an acre 

 of drilled turnips weighed a ton 

 and a half more than that of an 

 acre in the old husbandry, though 

 the latter were well hand-hoed. 

 For two years past, I have sown 

 turnips in the drill way, in the 

 poorest part of my garden, where 

 a crop of pease had grown the 

 same summer, and never had bet- 

 ter turnips. They were sufficient- 

 ly large for the table, though they 

 crew so near tojiether in the rows 

 that the roots crowded each other, 

 and were not sown earlier than 

 about the tenth of August. The 

 earth was hoed into ridges three 

 feet apart, and a single channel 

 seeded on each of the ridges. This 

 is the more observable, as I have 

 often sown turnips in the broadcast 

 way, on ihe same spot, and at the 

 usual time of sowing fall turnips, 

 and never before rai«ed any Hiat 

 were fit to eat. 1 have also tor 

 several years raised turnips in (he 

 field in the drill way. The ridges 

 were raised in May with the culti- 

 vator, about three feet apart. Th<'y 

 were kept clear from weeds till 

 about the last of July, by the cul- 

 tivator and the hand-hoe, and then 

 sown in single drills. Nothing 

 more was necessarv afterwards. 



