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is contended by an experienced farmer, that transplanting 

 is cheaper than sowing the seeds in the drills, and that any 

 given weight of turnips will cost the farmer less. By this 

 mode also, all injury from the fly is prevented. 



Mr Carnegie of Hailes, in East Lothian, is endeavour- 

 ing to raise a new variety of turnip, (mules between the 

 ruta-baga and the large white Norfolk turnip), which he 

 expects will be of great value to the agriculturist, being 

 much larger than the Swedish turnips, and possessing much 

 of their nutritive quality and durability in adverse seasons. 

 He hopes soon to be enabled to try them on a large scale, 

 and he is inclined to think, that they are not unlikely to 

 supersede the use of the common turnip altogether. It 

 would be a material object, if this sort would bear trans- 

 plantation, as well as the real Swedes. 



It is said that the turnips in Berwickshire are seldom 

 injured by the fly. This may perhaps be attributed to the 

 superior culture for which that district is so much distin- 

 guished, by means of which, the young plants are enabled, 

 to push away at the beginning, with more vigour, than 

 when the management is less perfect; for it is a general 

 observation, that the more rapid the vegetation of the plant, 

 the better is it able to withstand the effect of the insects' 

 depredations. The Berwickshire and Roxburghshire farm- 

 ers, have a great advantage in the culture of their turnips, 

 from the freshness in which their lands are preserved, by 

 the system of two years' grass in their rotation. 



It has been remarked in Banffshire, that mixing earth 

 or moss with the offals offish, makes an excellent compost, 

 particularly for turnips, and that the best turnips are always 

 after fish dung. This should be attended to on the sea- 

 coast, where such quantities of fish, and of fish offal, may 

 be had. 



The late Mr Barclay of Ury, whose authority as an 



