226 TURNIPS. 



common mode of cultivation ; ami that in this method lO 

 loads of muck are equal to 14 used in the common way. 



Mr. Coke, at Holkham, sows none broad-cast ; all arc 

 drilled. 



Mr. Rep TON, at Oxnead, drills turnips at one foot, 

 and prefers the method. 



Mr. England, of Binliam, tried the drill last year, 

 but he found the plants too thick in the rows, and has 

 observed the same in some other cases ; they are then dif- 

 ficult to hoe. 



Mr. Reeve, ofWiglUon, drilled tliem for two years 

 at 1 1 inches and a half, but has left off the practice. 



Mr. Henry Blvthe, of Burnham, though a very, 

 staunch friend to drilling corn, from 12 years experience, 

 does not drill turnips, finding that they are not so easily 

 hoed. 



Mr. Stvlem AN. at Snettisham, drills them at 12 inches, 

 and he thinks they hoe better than bioad-cast crops, and 

 that the produce is greater. 



Mr. BlooMfield, of Harpley, finding that his turnips 

 were very apt to fail, like those of his neighbours, on a 

 chalk soil, varied his husbandry ; he spread the muck, and 

 then sowed the turnip seed, and ploughed them in together, 

 by two furrows meeting, but not lapping the one on the 

 other, and the seed coming up along the centre of the flat 

 ridge thus formed, before winter he ploughs between, to 

 earth them up powerfully, for preservation against the 

 frost. The success has been great, and much exceeding 

 the common pradlice on that soil. Mr. Goddison fa- 

 voured me with this accoui>t — Mr. Bloom field not at 

 home. 



Mr. Priest, of Besthorpe, has this year turnips drilled 

 at 18 inches, with Cooke's machine: I viewed the crop, 

 and admired their regularity and size, for so unfavourable 



a year 



