'22 TURNEPS. 



Cultivation of surrounding land had Iain for a much longer time between the 

 Mr'^'w^lfiam '^^^ ploughing and the seed-furrow, and contained more mois'- 

 Watson. ture at the time of sowing them than the other; and though 



this, in a humid season, would not have caused a material 

 difference in the crops ; yet, in a summer so extremely dry as 

 the last, it was attended with important advantages. To 

 these I may add others; for dung having last year been unu-^ 

 sually plentiful, it was manured with about twenty loads an 

 acre, and with dung in a very moist state ; whereas, that ap<» 

 phed to the land on which the experiment was made, lost a 

 considerable portion of iis moisture by evaporation, during 

 the time of mixing well, for the purpose of rendering all parts 

 of it equal in quality. — Perhaps it may not be deemed unim- 

 portant to state, that the prevailing opinion is, that "cery dry 

 seasons are more unfavorable to the turnips raised on the small 

 ridges (drills) than to those produced on land with a Jlai suTi 

 face. 



No. IV. 

 The same objections which have been urged against the 

 manner of applying on No. I. may be advanced against the 

 mode of cultivation pursued on this ridge, under which the 

 plants cannot be left with such precision and regularity as in 

 the drill husbandry. 



Expence of each 7node of Culture. 



The management pursued on Nos. I. and IV., is less ex- 

 pensive up to the time the plants become fit for hoeing, than that 

 pursued on Nos. II. and III. This saving of expence, how- 

 ever, is overbalanced by the cheapness of hoeing under the 

 latter mode, and by the advantages derived from that opera- 

 tion being performed before the plants become too large. The 

 general expence of hoeing broad-cast turnep^, in this quarter, 

 is about seven to ten shillings per acre, of 4840 square yards. 

 Those in drills, with narrow intervals, will cost as much ; and 

 when it is considered, that an acre of these contains twice as 

 many rows as the sarne quantity of ground under the broad 

 intervals, and that these intervals are quickly and efficaciously 

 hoed with ihe horse and plough, it will be readily conceived 

 that the latter mode is the least expensive upon the whole. As 

 the turneps uader this experiment did not grow uniFormly, 



