the 

 ear 



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apt to be too careless. Labourers will ever persuade 

 them to what pays themselves best. Hop-poles, 

 hoop-stuff., hurdles, short faggots, long ones, bushes, 

 stakes, and edders : each of these articles is, in some 

 places, more profitable than any of the rest ; and I 

 believe, on an average, those will be found most 

 beneficial, for which the purchasers come and take 

 them away. Carriage, on so cheap and bulky a com- 

 modity as wood, is a very great deduction from the 

 product. 



COVER TURNIPS AGAINST FROST. 

 We are indebted to the Rev. Mr. Mannings, n 

 Dereham, in Norfolk, for a method of securing turnips 

 against frost, which deserves attention. He drills at 

 two feet equi-distant on the flat ; and, in a dry season, 

 towards the middle or end of November, he covers 

 them so by a deep ploughing as to secure them to a 

 great degree. I must, however, remark upon it, 

 that it seems a husbandry better adapted to the Nor- 

 thumberland system of drilling, often mentioned in 

 this Calendar, than to that of flat work. This mode 

 of drilling is upon the crowns of ridges. If the. tur- 

 nips at this season are drawn, and two rows set close 

 together in one furrow, and then the ridges, split, they 

 will be more effectually secured from the frost than 

 possible upon flat work. 



STEAMING ROOTS. 



This application of fire to the preparation of roots 

 for feeding stock, is a practice of the present age, and 

 it is thought a very favourable one, and largely prac- 

 tised by many very intelligent cultivators. The best 

 apparatus which I have viewed is that of Mr. Stares, 



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