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ploughed with a skim-coulter ; then well worked, 

 but shallow, with the scarifier, and the seed har- 

 rowed in. I have seen very good crops thus 

 gained ; and have had them myself even without 

 scarifying. This is much better husbandry than 

 putting in oats first, which should follow the tur- 

 nips. 



TURNIPS WITH RAPE-DUST, &c. 

 A praclice very lately introduced, and immedi- 

 ately adopted and extensively applied by that great 

 patron of modern improvements, Mr. Coke of 

 Norfolk, is to drill rape-cake dust from the same 

 machine, and at the same time with the turnip- 

 seed ; for which purpose a machine has been 

 very successfully made on Mr. Coke's principle, by 

 Mr. Burrcl of Thetford. Rape-cake is a very 

 common manure in Norfolk. ; when spread for tur- 

 nips, it has been usual to sow it grossly powdered 

 five or six weeks before the sowing the turnip- 

 seed ; but Mr. Coke has found at Holkham, that 

 by means of grinding it to perfect powder, there is 

 no necessity for any space of time between sowing 

 the manure and the seed ; and this may be pro- 

 bable enough. It is, however, a point in which 

 comparative expert vould be valuable. By 



thus delivering the manure and the seed into the 

 Fame pipes and shares of the machine, a ton docs 

 six acres instead of three. In whatever way the 

 question of the time of application may be decided, 

 ftill the importance of the machine remains the 

 same ; fur, with various other manures, there is no 



question 



