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completely covers the whole of the dung, and reverses the Cultivation of 

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tops and intervals. A roller about ten inches diameter, and william Wat- 

 four feet in length, drawn by one horse, is now moved along son; 

 the ridgeSi , It covers two at a time, leaving the tops gene- 

 rally about ten or twelve inches broad, in the middle of which 

 the turnep-seed is deposited, in a rut made by the coulter of 

 the sowing machine, which is fastened to the hinder part of 

 tke above roller by a cord about nine feet long ; the distance 

 between each row of turnip-seed, being twenty-six inches; 

 and if the ploughing and spreading have been properly per- 

 formed, the dung will be nearly beneath the rows. Thus the 

 agriculturist is not subject to the waste of any part of his ma- 

 nure, and reaps the superior benefit of having the turnep-seed 

 regularly sown, in a rut of a proper depths penetrating nearly 

 to the dung in the middle of the small ridges; — a method \ 



which seems better calculated to give to the cultivator of the 

 field advantages similar to the rapid and vigorous vegetation 

 promoted by the hot-bed of the garden, than perhaps any . 

 other mode of culture. The importance of having all the 

 dung perfectly covered, is evinced by the result of the above 

 experiment; for, with the exception of a small part of it, in a 

 few drills on No. II., not being perfectly covered with the 

 soil, there was no difference whatever between the manage- 

 ment of that ridge and the mode pursued on No, III. In dry 

 weather, the roller is moved twice along each ridge, first to 

 compress the soil, and next to dose the rut made by the 

 coulter of the sowing machine, to secure the turnep-seed from 

 depredation and drought: but if the soil be so moist as to 

 stick to the roller, it is moved only once along each drill ; and 

 some able husbandmen are of opinion, that this is Ihe most 

 advantageous mode in any state of ihe soil; that without the 

 second rolling, the turnip-seed will vegetate regularly; and 

 that, while young and tender, the plants will be beneficially 

 sheltered by the rut of the sowing-machine in adverse weather. 

 Some cultivators form the drills, or small ridges, with a 

 common single plough, and in many situations they are made 

 more straight and neat than with the double plough. With 

 the latter, however* they may, in mo^t situations, be suffi- 

 ciently well formed, at about half of the expence incurred by 

 using the single plough, which does not cover the dung better 

 than the other. — The ikutfler, an implement with three or fi\'e 

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