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be dry and level, the drills are msde diagonally 

 across the field, but if the ridges be high, it is best 

 to make the drills directly across the ridges, and 

 draw a plough down the furrows to take oiY the 

 \vntcr. 



" The quantity of dung used is from twelve to 

 twenty-two, two horse cart-loads to an acre, ac- 

 cording to circumstances. 



" It is generally supposed that a weightier crop is 

 produced by the drill than by the broad-cast me- 

 thod ; but, even admitting them equal in this re- 

 spect, the superiority as a fallow crop must be 

 allowed, because, by the repeated horse-hoeings 

 or ploughings in the intervals, and hand-hoeing in 

 the rows, you have it in your power to extirpate 

 the whole race of annual weeds, and so much sur- 

 face being exposed through the winter, makes a 

 higher preparation for any succeeding crop. An- 

 other advantage is, the facility with which they are 

 hoed, as a boy or girl of nine years old can hoe 

 them with the greatest ease, and indeed generally 

 better than experienced broad-cast hoers, because 

 these are more apt to take too many away, and 

 leave them over thin in the rows, while the young 

 ones, from the apprehension of hoeing them too 

 thin, will leave the plants at any distance you fix 

 upon. 



" This mode of drilling turnips has fully establish- 

 ed itself wherever it has been tried. Very few or no 

 turnips are now sown broad -cast in this country ; 

 the drill system universally prevails^ and is now 



pradlised 



