328 TURNIPS. [JUNE. 



if it is extremely fertile, or full of dung, the 

 growth of the turnips will be forced ; so much ac- 

 celerated, that they will presently grow out of the 

 power of the fly. I have often remarked in fields 

 partly dunged, that those lands which received no 

 manure, have been totally eaten up, while the 

 dunged parts have escaped. Without manure, the 

 growth is so slow, that the enemy has many op- 

 portunities to attack the plant. 



When a crop is totally destroyed, the farmers 

 plough or scuffle and sow again, which should ne- 

 ver be omitted, if you have time. Probably you 

 may do this, and yet get in your crop in June, which 

 will be a fortunate circumstance attending a first 

 early sowing. 



The directions here given for sowing turnips 

 throughout the month of June, are for those put 

 in before the 20th, chiefly applicable for such as are 

 to be used before Christmas ; for early sown crops 

 are much more liable to the mildew than such as 

 are sown later ; and the young farmer is to remem- 

 ber, that early sown turnips are much more apt to 

 be attacked by that distemper than such as are 

 sown later. 

 TURNIPS IN THE NORTHUMBERLAND METHOD. 



Upon this most interesting subject, the cultivator 

 of 50O acres annually, shall sprak to our young 

 husbandman. Mr. Culle-y says, " The land being 

 made very fine, prepared, &c. as in the broad-cast 

 method, the ploughman (where it is thought most 

 proper to begin) sets up three sticks or poles in a 



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