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the yards, not less than twenty cubical yards, but 

 thirty, or thirty-five, better, per acre, measured 

 before stirring. 



When the plants are four inches high, thin them 

 by hand-hoeing, with a view to a second hoeing, 

 that shall leave them at the intended distance at 

 which they are to remain, 18 or 24 inches, accord- 

 ing to the soil. 



SOW SWEDISH TURNIP. 



The ruta bag:i, or Swedish turnip, has, in a va- 

 rious experience, and through several of our coun- 

 ties, proved one of the most important acquisitions 

 which the husbandry of this country has made 

 for many years. I cultivated it upon its first in- 

 troduction, successfully, at Bradiidd, in the trans- 

 planting method: sowing the seed in a nursery or 

 seed-bed the end of February, and transplanting 

 it on the first rains in June ; but my success was 

 not so great as to induce me to be anxious about 

 it ; and for many years we heard but little of the 

 plant. In 18O1 I surveyed the county of Hert- 

 ford for the Board of Agriculture, and was much 

 pi rased to find that this plant was so well esta- 

 blished in that county, as to be almost common 

 husbandry. 



In 1802 I surveyed Norfolk, and there found 

 that many of the principal farmers had made 

 pnlty large experiments on it, and been suffici- 

 ently successful in some fidd^ to have an high 

 opinion of the plant ; but many of them com- 

 plained 



