at 51. 



week 



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practised even by its most virulent opponents, to 

 the extent of several thousand acres yearly : the 

 farms are in general very large, and there are many 

 farmers who drill ;.very year from 1OO to 200 acres. 

 " In this neighbourhood, last autumn, several 

 small parcels of turnips, drilled in the manner 

 above described, were sold at 61. an acre; and 

 i;p:,n our own farms we hrd at least 5OO acres 

 diilL>d, .vhich I have no doubt could have been 

 readily sold for 2,500l. ; or, on an average, at 5l. 

 an acre." 



TURNIPS AFTER TARES. 

 The winter tares that were sown the last 

 in August, or the beginning of September, will, if 

 the season proved favourable, be mown for soiling 

 early enough to put in turnips within this month. If 

 manure was necessary, it should have been spread 

 for the tares, and by that means the field will be in 

 fine order for this crop. Much depends on ma- 

 nagement : the tares should be mown stitch by 

 stitch longitudinally, and on no account whatever 

 in the common random way, in a round or square 

 portion irregularly ; for, by that means, the ploughs 

 are kept out so much longer, and if a drought 

 succeeds, the land mny not be in a state to plough 

 till too late ; but taken soon after the scythe, no 

 land stirs better than that where tares have been 

 mown. If the crop was large, and beaten at all 

 to the ground, there will be an uncut stubble, 

 which is ever turned clean in by any com- 



mon ploughs ; it should be attempted only with 



the 



