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should be particularly attended to while the plants 

 are young, for when they are much branched out, 

 the instruments cannot perform their work with 

 any thing like the same effect. 



CABBAGE FALLOW. 



If a drought happens in the month of June, and 

 the preparation of the fallow be not very forward, 

 a farmer may be caught with his clods not suffi- 



iently reduced to form the ridges : in this case, 

 there is a tool so effective, that the following mi- 

 nite of my own practice may be worth attention. 



In preparing my fallows for cabbages this year, 

 'I7Q3), I found a use in the Norfolk drill-roller, 

 vhirh I had not discovered before : I had got a 

 en -acred field, by heavy rolling, and harrowing, 

 ind repeated tillage, into pretty good order, and 

 he dung well buried ready for the plants : this 

 ie-ld was finished about the Qth of June : at the 

 ame time another ten acres were preparing ; but 

 iere, instead of a large two-ox roller covered with 

 eacl, I ordered my bailiff to try the drill-roller, 



hich requires four oxen : the effect was very great 

 rcdeed : the clods, from a long series of continued 

 ry weather, were large in spite of five ploughings, 

 nd much rolling and harrowing ; but once going 

 ver with this most effective tool, cut and bruised 

 iem to atoms, so that the land then ridged up for 

 ung is in excellent order. I have seen very pow- 

 rful spiky rollers used, but not with equal effect. 



should, however, observe, that no tool in the 



orld can be expected to operate, if a fallow be 



z 3 not 



