420 OIL-CAKE. 



but not ai tlie same time ; tlic raj>e-cakc should be broken 

 to the size of walnuts, the less dust the better, and should be 

 sown in April or Mav, as near the second ploughing as 

 conveniently can be done, to have a shower on it ; the 

 malt-combs should be sowed on the last earth, and har- 

 rowed In with the seed." 



Mr. England, ofBinham, uses much rape-cake, and 

 this year his turnips, thus manured, are his best. The 

 cake-dust should be scaled in, early in ivlay. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, uses large quantities of rape- 

 cake for his turnips, which in a wet season is an excellent 

 manure. Mucked turnips come quicker at first than 

 caked ones, but the latter exceed them afterwards : it is 

 best applied three weeks or a month before sowing the 

 seed, scaled in by the last earth but one : the deeper seed- 

 earth then deposits the manure in the centre of tfie furrow. 



Mr. Henry Blythe, of Burnham, has this year tur- 

 nips for which he spread rape-cake, at the expense of 3I. 

 per acre, and the crop is not worch 20s. ; but it answers 

 in a wet season. 



Mr. Syble, of Soutii Walsham, feeds many bullocks 

 with oil-cake, and. finds that one load of the dung is 

 worth two of any other: this he thinks by far the best, 

 and even the cheapest way of getting a farm into condition, 

 and laughs at the idea of buying rape-cake for manure, 

 when compared with this superior practice. It is expen- 

 sive to men who put lean beasts to cake, but if they are 

 what is called fat before cake be given, it answers well. 



Mr. Birch AM, at Hackford, has found that 10 load 

 of dung from cattle fed on oil-cake, will do as well as 16 

 loads from turnip-fed beasts. 



Mr. Styleman, finishing ins turnips before the grasses 

 were ready for the sheep, gave oil-cake in troughs, with 



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