Cultural Directions. — 1^7 



prompt attention when needed. This will show the novice 

 how to proceed, and insure his success, even on an enlarged 

 scale. 



Planting Mangels. — The safest way, especially for the 

 beginner or when cultivating a somewhat large area, is to plant 

 wide enough for easy cultivation by horse power — say in drills 

 three feet apart. Select any piece of good, clean farm land, but 

 giving a young clover sod the prefer- 

 ence. Cart on plenty of good fine 

 manure ; 40 loads to the acre is not 

 too much, and even more will pay. 

 This is plowed in ; or composted 

 poultry manure, in smaller quantity, 

 may be applied after plowing, and 

 harrowed in. Get the land in good 

 condition for sowing the seed, by the 

 use of roller, smoothing harrow, or, if 

 you have it, of the small disk (Meeker) 

 harrow. The surface should be smooth 

 and fine. A good way of sowing seed 

 is with a grain drill, with part of the 

 discharge tubes thrown out of gear, so 

 that those in operation will leave the 

 drills somewhere near three feet apart. 



Or the field may be marked off in shallow furrows, of distance 

 mentioned, with a common field marker, and seed sown with 

 the garden drill, following in the marks and sowing about four 

 pounds of seed to the acre. If you have no drill, you can 

 simply drop a pinch of seed (three or four) every 12 inches 

 apart in furrows made same as for planting corn, preferably 

 one and a half inches deep. Then cover with the hoe or foot, 

 and firm by stepping upon it, or pressing soil upon it with the 



