35O JUNE. 



CABBAGE FALLOW. 



If a drought happens in the month of June, 

 and the preparation of the fallow be not very 

 forward, a farmer may be caught with his clods 

 not sufficiently reduced to form the ridges : in 

 this case, there is a tool so effective, that the fol- 

 lowing minute of my own practice may be worth 

 attention. 



In preparing my fallows for cabbages this year, 

 (1/93), I found a use in the Norfolk drill -roller, 

 which I had not discovered before : I had got a 

 ten- acred field, by heavy rolling and harrowing, 

 and repeated tillage, into pretty good order, and 

 the dung veil buried ready for the plants: this 

 field was finished about the Qth of June : at the 

 same time another ten acres were preparing ; but 

 here, instead of a large two -ox roller covered with 

 lead, I ordered my bailiff to try the drill-roller, 

 which requires four oxen : the effect was very great 

 indeed : the clods, from a long series of continued 

 dry weather, were large in spite of five ploughings, 

 and much rolling and harrowing ; but once going 

 over with this most effective tool, cut and bruised 

 them to atoms, so that the land then ridged up for 

 dung is in excellent order. I have seen very pow- 

 erful spiky /oilers used, but not with equal effect. 

 I should, however, observe, that no tool in the 

 world can be expected to operate, if a fallow be 

 not prepared properly ; that is, ploughed once 

 before winter, and cross ploughed the moment the 



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