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t>ne respefl, that of being set out too thin, which with 

 dashing hoers is a common evil. 



9. Distempers. — -Mr. CoKE having heard that ducks had 

 been used to clear turnips of the black canker, tried them 

 on a field of ^iZ ^cres : he bought 400 ducks ; on the i6th 

 of July they were turned in, having water at one corner 

 of the field, and in five days they cleared the whole com- 

 pletely, marching at last through the field on the hunt, 

 eyeing the leaves on both sides with great care, to devour 

 every one they could see. 



The anbury, or external knots, each containing a small 

 worm in the centre, depends on soil, and most of the soils 

 in Norfolk are subjedl to it till they have been marled or 

 clayed, which is an almost sure preventative. 



10. Drilling. — The application of this mode of culture 

 to the turnip crop has not yet made any considerable pro- 

 gress in the country ; nor are the opinions of the farmers 

 settled upon the question of its propriety. 



Mr. FowEL drills his turnips for bullocks at 18 Inches, 

 but for sheep at 12. I viewed several of his crops, and 

 found them very regular : the drillings well joined, and 

 very straight. Four strokes of the drill sow an 18 feet ridge, 

 without a marker ; the horse led by the lines of the furrows. 

 He gives 3s. 6d. for hoeing the first time, and as. 6d. the 

 second. 



Mr. Bloomfield, at Billingfold, Jias this year (1802) 

 very promising turnips on a bad black gravel soil, which 

 he enclosed and broke up from the heath* His culture is, 

 to set out the ridges of two feet from the flat, with a dou« 

 ble breast plough, and to lay the muck in the furrows ; 

 he then sows broad-cast, and splits down the ridges with 

 the ground wrest of a double breast plough without its 

 breasts, harrows across, and the turnips come up regularly 

 on flat land in rows at two feet. The baiUfF thinks that 

 en this poor soil they should have had no turnips in the 



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