18 TURNEPS-. 



Sn^''f^b"Mr ^"^^"^ ^^'S ^^^^ of management, the plants maybe tefl 

 William Wat- * ^^ more regular distances in hoeing than in the broad-cast 

 ®°"' method ; but I am nun; inclined to dispute that that operation 



can be performed at an expence materially, if at all, less than- 

 among those obtained in the latter way. The plants are 

 generally left in the rows at about twelve inches apart, so that 

 an acre will produce about 40,200 turneps, when the crop is a 

 full one. 



Nos. II. and III. 



Some practical agriculturists, as well as chemical philosa- 

 phers, have contended, that dung should be thorotighli/ putre- 

 fied before it be applied to the soil ; and others maintain, that 

 it is more beneficial to apply it in a half-rotten state. Into 

 this dispute, I am not, at present, inclined to enter. Let it 

 suffice to say, that a great majority, probably upwards ot 

 three-fourths of the farmers, in almost all the extensive turnip 

 districts in the kingdom', apply it either in the latter state, or 

 before it has arrived at a much more forward stage of putre- 

 faction ; and if rotten dung (thoroughfy putrefied) cannot be 

 wholly covered in this common rftode of ploughing, it is obvi- 

 ous, as I have before remarked, that, in the other stale, a 

 still greater part must be rendered nearly useless by exposure 

 to the solar rays, &c. In the management now under consi- 

 deration, however, every atom of it may be buried, if the 

 spreaders and ploughmen are attentive That management rs 

 as follows : As soon as the land has been properly pulverized' 

 and cleaned, a double-mould board plough, drawn by two 

 horses, is used to raise small ridges, about 12 or 14- inches 

 high, with intervals o( twenty-six inches, and the tops, of 

 about an inch or two broad. All the drills should be equal in 

 size. The height should in some measure be regulated by the 

 quantity and state of the dung. Immediately after the smalf 

 ridges or drills are formed, a man with a cart, drawn by one 

 or two horses, lays a sufficient quantity of dung for three or 

 five drills (in small heaps), in the interval, while the wheel? 

 of the cart run in the adjoining spaces. In this manner all 

 the other intervals are manured. As soon as the dung is 

 carefully spread in the bottoms of the intervals, another doable- 

 mould board plough (also drawn by two horses moving in the 

 intervals), splits the ridges along their tops. This operatioa 



