7 . YORKSHIRE. it 



IV. SEED-PROCESS. The time of fowing % 

 July : early enough to get a ftrong leaf, and 

 late enough to prevent its running up to 

 ftem, the firft autumn. Quantity of feed, one 

 gallon an acre ; fown generally on the rough 

 plit of one plowing (fee SOD -BURNING) ; 

 the feed being brulhed in with a thorn-har- 

 row; 



Sometimes the tops of the plits are fcratch^ 

 ed with a pair of .lined harrows before the 

 feed be fown ; and fometimes they are nei- 

 ther harrowed before, nor (wept after thd 

 fowing ! 



V. VEGETATING-PROCESS. I have heard of 

 an inftance or two of rape being hoed- with 

 five or fix-inch hoes. But that is not the 

 practice of the country. Neither homg, 

 nor weeding of any kind, is, I believe, 

 fcarcely ever beftowed on the rape crop. 



One practice, however, in this flage of the 

 general proccfs of rape deferves notice. The 

 practice here meant is that of " TRANS- 

 PLANTING :" namely, filling the vacant 

 patches (with which rape too frequently 

 abounds) with plants drawn from the parts 

 which are overftocked. 



This 



