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couch-grass, crowfoot, wild sorrel, or others equally 

 noxious, they must he completely eradicated, else it 

 will he in vain to think of raising seedlings of any 

 kind. The hest method of cleaning ground in this 

 condition, will he to trench and green crop it. The 

 trenching should not go deeper than to the suhsoil ; 

 and, in performing it, every stone larger than a com- 

 mon hen's egg should he picked out and carried 

 away. The weeds, instead of being buried, should 

 be carefully rooted up by the workmen, as they 

 proceed, and thrown upon the surface to dry, for the 

 purpose of being burnt. It is impossible to get rid 

 of perennial weeds by merely digging them down ; 

 any of the above mentioned kinds will reappear, 

 though covered with more than a foot of earth. 



The ground, thus prepared, must receive as much 

 dung as may be sufficient for producing a full crop 

 of turnips, which should be sown at the usual sea- 

 son. It will be advisable, likewise, to give it a mo- 

 derate quantity of lime, provided it has never got 

 any before, or, at least, not for a considerable num- 

 ber of years. The turnips must be rigorously 

 cleaned ; and 1 had almost forgot to mention, that 

 they should be sown, not in horse drills, as is usual- 

 ly done by farmers, but in the broadcast way ; as 

 the former method causes the dung to be unequally 



