342 CARROTS. [JUNE. 



not prepared properly ; that is, ploughed once 

 before winter, and cross-ploughed the moment the 

 north-east winds enable the teams to go on to the 

 land : this year I ribbled one field across, and clean - 

 ploughed one: the latter is by far the most effec- 

 tive, and leaves the fallow rougher and more ex- 

 posed to drying winds. Rain is of great use in 

 pulverization, for a common pair of harrows, at 

 the right moment, will reduce the roughest land 

 to a line state ; but there is a vast difference to the 

 temper of the land between reducing it while quite 

 dry, and while wet or even moist : in the former 

 case, friability is entirely preserved ; in the latter, 

 the tread of the horses is a pressure, which forms 

 that which will become a fresh clod, and of th 

 worst sort. It maybe accepted as a rule in tillage, 

 to work wet and strong soils when quite dry; and 

 of all barbarous management, nothing is so abomi- 

 nable as to let dry seasons pass, in order to plough 

 lands when rain comes. This Norfolk drill- 

 roller is so effective an instrument for the purpose, 

 that a strong land farmer should not be without 

 one ; in such a season as this has been, no common 

 tool will reduce land ; and for cabbages, the time 

 of rain must be used for setting out the plants, and 

 not lost for pulverizing the land, in order to be 

 planting afterwards in dry weather, or, what is 

 bad, watering at an cxpence too great to bear. 



CARROTS. 



The carrot-crop will, in all probability, require- :* 

 hoeing this month, about the latter end of it. Ji 



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