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olner m this kingdom. In several, the drills are not drawn at Cultivation of- 

 right angles to the ridges (I mean the common ridges of the \v\niam Wat- ' 

 field), but in a diagonal direction ^ it having been found, that sou. 

 the seed-furrow in the succeeding spring, together with the 

 effects of common harrowing, not only reduces the land to an 

 y»eK surface, but that after such management, the crops of 

 corn are uniformly luxurient and productive, the manured parts 

 being, in these operations, well mixed with the soil in the in« 

 teivals. I am satisfied, from my own practice, and pretty 

 accurate observation on that of others, that with considerably 

 less manure, as weighty a crop of turneps may be obtained by 

 this method of cultivation, as by that with narrow intervals^ 

 or in the broad-cast husbandry ; and, as it is generally difficult 

 to raise as much dung as v/ill manure the whole of the fallow 

 land, at the rate of fourteen to sixteen loads an acre, this, in 

 promoting the growth of more extensively luxuriant crops, and 

 increasing the quantity of manure for those which succeed, is an 

 invaluable advantage. Besides, in unpropitious seasons, when, 

 under tlie broad-cast and narrow drill system, a judicious 

 agriculturist would not cultivate turnips on land he has not 

 been enabled thoroughly to pulverize and clean, he would 

 venture to raise them where the spaces between the rows are 

 sufficiently broad for the admission of the horse and the 

 plough, under an idea that before their tops covered the in- 

 tervah, (which they generally do about the beginning of Oc- 

 tober) his ground could be brought into a proper state. — Yo« 

 will no doubt remark, that the crop I obtained even on 

 No. HI., was but scanty; and conceive, however, notwith- 

 standing that circumstance, that the experiment satisfactorily 

 shews the superiority of the mode of management pursued on 

 that ridge. — By the same mode, I obtained a crop on the 

 land surrounding that ^n which the experiment was made, 

 which, considering the extreme dryness of the summer, and 

 that it was sown at the same late period of the season as that 

 upon the experiment ground, maybe reckoned a very pro- 

 ductive one; and^ as the soil was not superior in quality, it 

 may be of some consequence to endeavour to account for this 

 difference. The land marked out for the experiment, con- 



. tained ,some couch and other weeds, which I wished to eradi- 

 cate; it therefore received a common ploughing only a few 



i^^s-pr^vifius to t^s %^^d l^eiTfg QQnmiiWd to the ground, Thfi 



