NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED, III 



* The half acre before mentioned," fays 



Mr. Baker, " I manured with at lead double 



" the proportion of compoft that was allowed 



" to the other part of the fallow, as it was 



" flat, and it was necefiary to manure every 



" part of it, being intended for turnips, to 



" be fowq in the prdmifcuous way, or broad 



' caft: to this piece of ground I gave a fixth 



* c ploughing, as it could not have the benefit 



<c of the horfehoe, when cropped ; and there- 



' fore I thought it neceflary to reduce it as 



" fine as poflible, in order to give the broad- 



" caft crop of 'turnips every advantage I 



" could. My turnips mould have been iown. 



" at lead three weeks earlier; but the iramo- 



c derate and continual rains of the preceding 



" winter involved me ib much with my fpring 



" fowing, that I could not accomplifh my 



" turnip-fowing earlier. When the drilled 



" turnips were about three inches high, I 



" thinned them by hand, as being much 



'" preferable and more expeditious than any 



'* iiillrumcnt, intending to have them fingled 



*' out to about one foot afunder in the rows ; 



" but, it being fo new a work, the women 



' could not be brought to do it effectually at 



once, they apprehending that the whole 



*' crop would be loft, and arguing that they 



* c were fure there was already too mucii 



" ground allowed to one ro.v: under thefe 



*' circumftances, I could not get this work 



> <done (juite to my mind this year; as I had, 



