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burned or carried off, the dung is fet on, and, 

 if time will permit, fcaled in fleet by a 



FOURTH PLOWING. 



6. After which, the foil and manure are in- 

 timately blended with the harrow; and, in 

 due feafon, the seed-plowing takes place. 



The fourth plowing is, however, fre- 

 quently omitted ; either through want of 

 time or other reafon ; the manure being in 

 this cafe turned in immediately with the feed- 

 plowing, which, in either cale, is of a 

 mean depth. The former is, no doubt, to 

 appearance, the moft hulband-like practice, 

 and, in a light foil and moift feafon, may be 

 the mOil: eligible m.anagement ; — but, in a 

 dry time, and on a ftout clofe-textured foil, 

 the latter, provided the manure be finely 

 broken, and evenly fpread, may be more 

 eligible. SeeMiN. 71. on this fubjedl. 



V. Manure-process.— I. The species of 

 manure which is principally depended upon 

 for turneps is " muck ;" — that is, dung, with 

 a greater or fmaller admixture of mould, 

 marl, &c. — Malt-cocmbs are in good repute ; 

 and oil-cake is fometimes ufed by fome few in- 



dividuals ; 



