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seldom that cow-manure alone attains a degree of warmth suf- 

 ficient for this crop. It is well therefore to combine it with a 

 liberal supply of well rotted horse-manure. A compost of one 

 third muck, one third cow-manure, and one third horse- ma- 

 nure, well mixed, and thoroughly decomposed, is as good an 

 application for turnips as can be found. About six cords of 

 this compost, spread upon the acre, and well harrowed in, will 

 make a good bed for the crop. The addition of half a ton of 

 bone manure to the acre, to the compost heap before it is ap- 

 plied, will vastly improve the mixture. 



When the land has been prepared and the manure applied, as 

 we have suggested, it should be lightly furrowed with a com- 

 mon wooden marker, containing three or four teeth about four 

 inches long, and from 20 to 24 inches distant from each other. 

 This instrument will line off the field into shallow furrows not 

 more than an inch in depth. In these furrows, should be 

 strewn with the hand about found hundred pounds of good su- 

 perphosphate of lime, to the acre. The seed should then be 

 sown in the furrows, with a seed-sower, so managed that the 

 seed shall not be deeply covered. We recommend the super- 

 phosphate for this crop, after many trials of its merits. The 

 chairman of this committee used, during the past season. Flour 

 of Bone, Mexican Guano, and Khodes' Superphosphate, upon 

 different contiguous portions of the same field. The Super- 

 phosphate produced the desired and expected effect ; the Flour 

 of Bone fell some distance behind ; and the Guano produced 

 no perceptible effect at all — the crop being very light. 



In manuring turnips it is particularly desirable to neutralize 

 as far as possible the vegetable acids in the soil. Muck should, 

 never be applied to them imtil it has been corrected by the ac- 

 tion of frost and heat, or by the use of lime. It will be found 

 that the smoothest and best shaped turnips grow on land in 

 which the mineral elements preponderate. Wherever these el- 

 ements are deficient, as is often the case in soils where clay or 

 muck abound, the use of lime will be be found beneficial, not 

 only as a neutralizer of the acids, but as a solvent of the veg- 



