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quantity on hand, and the quantity of turnep- 

 ground to be manured : there is little danger 

 of fetting on too large a quantity : ten to fif- 

 teen cart-loads of good muck are confidered as 

 a fair drefflng. Of oil-cake, about a ton to 

 three aqres : of malt-cocmbs, fifty or fixty ; — • 

 and of foot, forty or fifty bufiiel$ an acre. 



For the method of carrying out, compoft- 

 ing, and fetting on muck, fee the article 



MANURE-PROCESS, 



VI. The seed-process.— I. The time o? 

 SOWING depends upon the application.— When 

 they are intended for early confumption, they 

 are fown as foon as the foil can be got into pro- 

 per order for them : but if they be intended tp 

 ftand the winter, the beginning of July is 

 thought to be early enough. The moft ge- 

 neral rule is, to begin to fow about a week 

 before Midfummer, and continue fowing, from 

 time to time, until about a fortnight after 

 Midfummer ; — fay, from the feventeentli or. 

 eighteenth of June, to the fevcnth or eighth of 



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