258 W OLDS. 20. 



Turneps generally fuccecd fward, fodburnt, 

 once plowed very fleet ; or perhaps only rice- 

 balked. No manure, and only once hoed. 



This at firft fight may appear to be a loofe 

 mode of culture j but not fo if we duly con- 

 fider its bafis. 



If the turf be of a good age, and the foil of 

 a tolerable quality, no other manure than its 

 aflies is required ; and fward which has been 

 fodburnt and only once plowed is much lefs 

 liable to foul the crop with weeds than land 

 which has been under tillage. Upon the 

 whole, it appears to me to be a practice well- 

 adapted to the Wolds, where old fward is 

 abundant, and where extraneous manures are 

 difficult to be procured. 



The application tf theturnep-crop is almoft 

 wholly to Iheep, which are folded upon the 

 fi anding turners ; a practice which cannot be 

 defended (fee NORF. ECON. Vol.1, p. 297 ) 

 and^ with only one flock \ a pradke which is 

 flijl more cenfurable. It is no wonder that 

 die Wold Iheep at turneps fhould be fubject 

 as they are to diforders : to-day iatiated with 

 the tops and the befc of the pulp ; to-morrow 

 pining over the fhells, with only half their 



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