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as well as for all other crops, no ploughing should 

 go on while the soil is at all wet. 



As this tillage marks the land designed for this 

 crop, it is proper to caution those farmers who are 

 unacquainted with the culture of it, against apply- 

 ing too much land to it. If they have a great 

 plenty of dung at command, they may enter 

 largely into this husbandry ; but they should de- 

 termine to plant no more land than can be ma- 

 nured at the rate of 25 or 30 large- loads per acre ; 

 for one acre well cultivated, will pay better than 

 five, or even ten, indifferently managed. 



PARSNIPS. 



Of all the roots which a farmer can cultivate, this 

 is the most valuable; but it demands a better soil 

 than any other crop he can put into the ground. 

 If he has not land of an extraordinary quality, he 

 had better not venture on the culture. The\ love 

 a very deep, rich, dry, sound, friable, sandy loam, 

 ploughed as deeply as possible towards the end of 

 autumn, and left for the frost to pulverize and 

 sweeten. About the 12th of this month, if the 

 weather be favourable, it will be proper to sow and 

 harrow in five pounds of seed per acre, which will 

 come up in about six weeks. In order that the 

 young farmer may see what inducement there is to 

 apply so good a soil to this use, I shall here lay 

 before him a short detail of advantages, given by a 

 considerable farmer in Surrey, which was commu- 

 nicated to the Society of Arts. 



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