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ca, asserts, that the largest crops are attainable by growing the 

 Ruta Baga in rows four feet apart, with the plants about ten 

 inches or a foot distant from each other in the rows ; and that 

 in this mode of culture he has raised, in England, thirty tons to 

 the acre. 



For this mode of culture, the manure, being deposited in fur- 

 rows four feet apart, is covered by four back furrows, two on 

 one side and two on the other, of each line with manure ; by 

 which little ridges are formed ; and if the ploughing be deep 

 (as it ought to be) there will be a deep gutter between every 

 two ridges. The tops of the ridges being made fine with 

 a light harrow, or with rakes, the seeds are sown with a dril- 

 ling machine ; or by hand, which Mr. Cobbett says he prefers 

 to a drill. Two men sowed for him seven acres in three days, 

 using about four pounds of seed, in this manner : a man went 

 along by the side of each ridge, and put down two or three 

 seeds in places at about ten inches from each other, just draw- 

 ing a little earth over, and pressing it on the seed, in order to 

 make it vegetate quickly, before the earth became too dry, — 

 But, he adds, the seven acres might have been sown'by one 

 man in a day, by just scattering the seeds along on the top of 

 the ridges, when they might have been hurried with a rake, and 

 pressed down with a spade or shovel or other flat instrument. 

 But he used a light roller, to take two ridges at once, the horse 

 walking in the gutter between. The time of sowing the seeds 

 must vary with the climate. On Long Island Mr. Cobbett's 

 trials of one year, led him to prefer the 26th of June ; but in 

 our own county, I would not pass the middle of that month. — 

 Indeed, I think it expedient (in order to ascertain the fittest 

 time) to commence sowing the seed, as soon as the ground can 

 be prepared, after the planting of Indian Corn, and to contin- 

 ue to sow in small plots, weekly, until the middle of June. — 

 As soon as the plants are fairly up ; hoes and the fingers are 

 to be used, taking out all the plants but one in each ten or 

 twelve inches. As soon as weeds appear, hoeing is to com- 

 mence, hoeing the tops of the ridges to the width of about six 



