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valuable green crop, in a Pamphlet which now lies 

 before me, I shall beg- leave to make such use of it 

 as suits my present purpose. 



Mangel Wurzel is a kind of red beet, not liable to 

 be injured by disease or insects, and proof against the 

 change of seasons. In strong clay or any light shingly 

 soils, it will however be a very inferior crop. It re- 

 quires loamy loose soil, and abundance of short and 

 rich manure. It gives no unpleasant taste to milk 

 or butter, (an objection which may be \irged against 

 turnips and most kinds of cabbage) — quite the re- 

 verse. Pigs as well as milch cows are fond both 

 of its leaves and roots. Sixteen or twenty perches 

 under it, will support a cow, allowing her sixty pounds 

 weight per day, for the five winter months ; and half 

 a pound of seed, which will cost about 1*. QcL, will 

 sow these 20 perches. From the 20th to the end of 

 April, is the best time for sowing the seed ; and those 

 of you who are not likely to have your ground at 

 that time ready, should sow in a seedling bed, in order 

 to transplant when the groimd is prepared ; and in this 

 case you shoidd not put out the plants until they are 

 about an inch in (hameter, else they will not arrive 

 at full size. The best way, however, is to sow the 

 seed where it is to remain, and the process is as fol- 

 lows : — 



Prepare your land as if for driUing potatoes — open 

 the drills eighteen inches or two feet distant, the 

 deeper the better, unless there is yellow clay at bot- 

 tom — fill them with short manure — cover them with 

 four or five inches of earth — roll them lengthways, 

 and then on the smooth and level top make holes with 

 a dil)bling stick, two inches in depth and about twelve 

 inches apart, and into every hole dj-op two seeds, which 

 are to be covered as the work proceeds. When the 

 plants are about two inches high, you are to draw out 

 from each hole the extra plant or plants, lea\'ing of 

 course the strongest and healthiest plant behind. 

 Keep them clear from weeds, but do not earth them. 



