Transplanting. 



attention of the practical farmer ; yet, in this way, a wonder- 

 ful increase of produce may be procured. 



This mode of propagating grain, should be kept in view 

 on two accounts; first, that any valuable species of wheat 

 or other grain, might be more rapidly increased ; and, se- 

 condly, in case of any very great scarcity, transplanting would 

 be by far the most effectual means of saving seed-corn. Be- 

 sides, though it may not become a general practice, yet in 

 cases where the ground is not regularly covered, a farmer 

 may always find some places in his fields, whence plants 

 may be drawn, without doing any injury; and the crops 

 may thus be rendered, not only more regular and uni- 

 form, but also more abundant, and of a better quality, than 

 where the vacancies are filled with spring wheat ( ISI ). 



The experiments tried by Mr Falla of Gateshead, near 

 Newcastle, in Northumberland, by which spade cultivation 

 is united to transplanting crops of wheat, are highly satis- 

 factory. The length of the plants, and the size of the heads, 

 astonished every person who saw them, and the produce was 

 at the rate of sixty-eight bushels per statute acre, though 

 from five to six bushels were lost, from the crop being sha- 

 ken by the wind, and preyed on by the birds. By this plan, 

 numbers of the unemployed poor might be provided with 

 work, and enabled to procure subsistence. 



The transplanting of the Swedish turnip, is a practice, 

 which has succeeded in Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Here- 

 fordshire, and is found to answer, both for cleaning the crop 

 more perfectly, and raising a greater produce. The seed 

 is sown in the latter end of April, in a garden. If the wea- 

 ther be favourable, the turnips are ready to be transplanted 

 early in June ; sometimes, however, it is protracted, owing 

 to the season, until the middle or end of July. The land is 

 manured, and prepared, as if for drilled turnips ; and the 

 plants are set from twelve to eighteen inches apart in the 

 row : the greater the distance, the weightier in general is the 

 crop. The transplanted Swedes, are afterwards treated in 

 the same manner as the common drilled. When transplant- 

 ed, it is of use to dip the roots in dung-water. The pro- 

 duce is from 20 to about 30 tons per statute acre. But it 

 has been remarked, that though transplanting might have 

 been expedient when the seed was scarce, the practice has 

 become less necessary, since the seed has become more abun- 

 dant ; and that a crop of Swedes, raised from the seed, and 

 not transplanted, often exceeds 30 ton per statute ^cre. 



