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ful inducements to urge a farmer to enter readily 

 on the culture. 



Bring the field into just such order as is requisite 

 for a turnip crop, and sow two pounds of the seed 

 per acre ; one pound is enough, but if the fly is ap- 

 prehended, it is much safer not to spare seed. 



MADDER. 



The crop planted last month will want a hand- 

 hoeing before the expiration of this month : that 

 work should be done with eight -inch hoes, and very 

 carefully ; for the young plants will not bear rough 

 treatment of any kind, being of a most brittle na- 

 ture. It will not be advisable to horse-hoe yet. 



LIQUORICE. 



The young crop of liquorice must be hand-hoed 

 in May, and carefully hand-weeded at the same 

 time. In common management, this is not well 

 done, owing to the cropping the ground the first 

 year with onions or carrots, both which, or any 

 other plant, are but so many weeds, that rob the 

 principal produce. 



WHEAT FALLOW. 



If the farmer fallows for wheat, which is, hovv- 

 euer, but an unprofitable practice, according to 

 the modern ideas of husbandry, the land should 

 receive an earth this month, to turn in the weeds 

 that have arisen since the last. The maxim of 

 making the fallows very fine in April, to destroy 



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