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The kind planted was the small horse-bean. If 

 is to be noticed, that when beans are in this man- 

 ner planted with potatoes, the earliest kind 

 should be chosen for seed, as the potatoe seed- 

 time is usually three weeks later than that of 

 beans. 



TURNIP. 



Twenty years ago, very few turnips were 

 cultivated in this county. Since that time they 

 have been gradually coming into repute, and 

 the culture of them, of course, more extended, 

 and better understood. Still, however, the tur- 

 nip-husbandry is not nearly so extensive as its 

 usefulness seems to require, and the nature of 

 our soil will admit. North of the Eden, and 

 west from Burntisland, few turnips, compa- 

 ratively speaking, are raised. The reason as- 

 signed by the farmers is, that wheat being a 

 principal object, they find that they cannot spare 

 manure from this crop in such quantity as to 

 raise turnips to any considerable extent. Ac- 

 cordingly, on many large farms, we often find 

 not above three or four acres of turnip, which 

 are chiefly designed and used for feeding their 

 milch cows in winter. In order to make up 

 for the deficiency of manure occasioned by 

 the want of turnip, the fanmers often feed 

 their cattle and horses in the house, during 

 the summer months, with cut clover. On 

 many farms, however, in the middle divisions, 

 and on the east coast, they are cultivated in 

 considerable quantities, and form a part of the 

 usual rotation of crops. From the best informa- 

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