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or no turnips arc now sown broad-cast in this coun- 

 trv; the drill system universally prevail and is 

 now practised even by its most virulent opponents, 

 to the extent of several thousand acres yearly: the 

 farms are in general very large, and there are many 

 farmers who drill every year from 100 to 200 acres. 

 " In this neighbourhood, last autumn, several 

 small parcels of turnips, drilled in the manner 

 above described, were sold at 61. an acre ; and 

 upon our own farms we had at least 5OO acres 

 drilled, which, I have no doubt, could have been 

 readily sold for 25001. ; or, on an average, at 5l. 

 an acre." 



IMPROVED METHOD. 



To those who are convinced that the use of long 

 dung is beneficial, there is a method of using it 

 for turnips, superior to all others ; this is by 

 ploughing the land on to four- foot ridges, scouring 

 the furrows out as deep as possible, with a double 

 mould-board plough, laying the dung in these deep 

 furrows, and burying it by reversing the ridges : 

 by this means, this long strawy dung is com- 

 pletely covered, which is effected with difficulty 

 in common tillage, two rows of turnips at one foot 

 arc drilled on each ridge, and there are three feet 

 of space for horse-hoeing, which admits of far 

 more effective work than the Northumberland 

 method. When the land comes to be ploughed 

 for barley, the double ftiould- board plough again 



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