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he carts it on to heaps as soon as his turnips are sown, to 

 rest without turning till wiieat-sovving; as all his turnips 

 are manured from Yarmouth. He has accidentally carted 

 long par muck for turnips, to finish a Held, and they were 

 certainly a worse crop: for wheat it may be diiFerent. — 

 Mr. Tki/rtell thinks the winter is the worst time of 

 all for carrying out muck, whether from yards or com- 

 posts ; it sliould be either in sum.mer for turnips, or ia 

 autumn for wheat. He does not wish any of his straw 

 to be eaten ; all trodden into muck. 



Air. EvERiT, of Caistor, never uses over-year muck : 

 he carts from the yard, late in the spring, forming heaps; 

 in three weeks turns over, and in a fortnight more carts 

 and spreads for turnips : when he has fallen short in quan- 

 tity, he has taken long and fresh dung, and has had as 

 good turnips as after the short. Upon strong land, he has 

 known long fresh dung answer very well : the chief ob- 

 jedtion to it is the difficulty of turning it in. He was 

 much pleased at the idea of the skim coulter. 



At Hemsby, Mr. Ferrier, &:c, thinks short dung, 

 from being carted to a hill, best ; but no over-year muck. 

 Mr. Ferrier gives fifteen loads per acre to turnips, and 

 six to wheat 



Mr. Brown, of Thrigby, has carted long stable-muck 

 in March, without any stirring, for turnips, and had as 

 good crops as from hilled short muck; but in such cases 

 gives 15 loads per acre, instead of 12. If the same quan- 

 tity, he thinks the rotten would prove the best. His ob- 

 jeflion to long muck is, the idea that seeds would be 

 carried out which would not vegetate in time for the iioe 

 to destroy then:, such as dpcks and needles ; and these, he 

 imagines, are destroyed by the fcruicntation, when hilled, 

 and for tijis purpose, tlie muck, by all good farmers, i^ 



thrown 



