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enough in this ; but young ones, and gentlemen 

 just beginning their husbandry, are apt to be too 

 careless. Labourers will ever persuade them to 

 what pays themselves best. Hop- poles, hoop- 

 stuff, hurdles, short faggots, long ones, bushes, 

 stakes, and edders: each of these articles is, in some 

 places, more profitable than ;my of the rest ; and 

 I believe, on an average, those will be found most 

 beneficial, for which the purchasers come and take 

 them away. Carriage, on so cheap and bulky a 

 commodity as wood, is a very great deduction from 

 the product. 



COVER TURNIPS AGAINST FROST. 

 We are indebted to the Rev. Mr. Munnings, 

 near Dereham, in Norfolk, for a method of secur- 

 ing turnips against frost, which deserves attention. 

 He drills at two feet equi-distant on the flat ; and 

 in a dry season, towards the middle or end of No- 

 vember, he covers them so by a deep ploughing, as 

 to secure them to a great degree. I must, how- 

 ever, remark upon it, tiiat it seems a husbandry 

 better adapted to the Northumberland system of 

 drilling, often mentioned in this Calendar, than to 

 that of flat work. This mode of drilling is upon 

 the crown of ridges. If the turnips at this season 

 are drawn, and two rows set close together in one 

 furrow, and then the ridges split; they will be more 

 effectually secured from the frost than possible upon 

 flat work. 



- STEAM1K6 



