MARCH. 



PARSNIPS. 



Early in this month parsnips are to be sown. 

 They are not to be recommended, except on trie 

 deepest and richest soils. The land should be dry 

 but very fertile. The putrid rich deep sands worth 

 4Os. or 50s. an acre, the -deep friable sandy loams, 

 that are as good two feet deep as on the surface, 

 are the soils fittest for this root. On these they 

 come to a great size ; and no other crop on such 

 land can pay better. Where the soil is proper, the 

 inducement to cultivate them is very great, for 

 they will fatten bullocks as well as oil-cake, and are 

 excellent in fattening hogs. Of all common roots 

 they are the most saccharine. The tillage and 

 management is the same as for carrots, but they 

 demand deeper ploughing : four pounds of seed 

 the proper quantity, sown like carrots, broad- cast, 

 and the first week of this month the right time. 

 If the weather is favourable, they may be sown the 

 last week in February, and harrowed in. Both 

 these roots have been tried in drilling, by very 

 skilful drillers, but they have not answered like 

 broad-cast crops. Nothing prepares better for corn, 

 if due attention be paid to keeping them entirely 

 ctean. 



POTATOES DIBBLED. 



The land I suppose to have received its first til- 

 lage in autumn; and, if it was inclinable to be 

 rough, to have had a second j^'x^hing in February. 

 The first dry season in jhis oo;uh, it should be 



stirred 





