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with three teeth, at three feet asunder, drawn along am! 

 across the lands, and set the plants at the intersedlions. 



Mr. FowEL cultivated Scotch kale in 1801. The seed 

 was sown in a bed in April, and transplanted tlie middle 

 of June, in rows at three feet, and the same distance from 

 plant to plant, on three acres. They were kept clean by 

 hand-hoeing, find fed off by sheep. They yielded abun- 

 dance of food ; but he thought the sheep did not take kind- 

 ly to them ; tlie use, however, was very great, as his tur- 

 nips rotted. This year he intended a crop, but the seed 

 was bad and failed. The barley was as good as after tur- 

 nips. 



In 1784, 1 remarked in the Annals of Agriculture^ vol. ii, 

 p. 365, the great superiority, on luy own farm, of 

 borecole, &c. drilled and left without transplanting, to that 

 which was transplanted, and thence recommended the 

 praftice ; which was, Ibelievcy the first public hint given 

 of it. 



COLE-SEED. 



Mr. EvERiT, of Caistor, in Fleg, alwavs liand-hoes 

 his cole-seed once, with seven incli hoes, giving the same 

 price (6s. 6d. an acre) as for the two turnip hoeings. The 

 benefit is very great, not only in cleaning the land, but 

 also in the growth of the plants: they stand the winter 

 much better than unhoed crops, spreading on the ground, 

 instead of running up, and being exposed and cut by 

 frosts. 



Cole-seed, in the fens of Marshland, on paring and 

 burning, runs to thick stalk, and that quite brittle, and is 

 excellent for stock ; but at Walpole it is inferior. 



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