On the Farming of Suffolk. 



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between the rows pulverizes the soil^ and causes it to attract a 

 greater quantity of moisture; the increased number of roots would, 

 of course, extract from the soil a greater amount of water, and of 

 those substances held in solution by the water. The fresh pul- 

 verized earth given by the plough is very acceptable to the 

 cabbages ; the land has an almost perfect fallow, and grows an 

 excellent crop. 



The carting off the cabbages is done in such a manner as to be 

 productive of as little injury to the land as possible. This is done 

 with a quarter-cart, as it is termed in Suffolk, having the shafts 

 so placed that the horse walks before the right hand wheel ; in 

 other words, it quarters." With this cart the wheels and 

 horse are made to go in the two furrows, the body of the cart 

 passing over a row of cabbages which are filled into the cart as it 



plan of growing swedes and beet is somewhat 



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moves on. 



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similar to that adopted for cabbages, as it has the same end in 

 view of making a fallow, and pre- 

 venting injury to the land by 

 carting. a a a, double rows of 

 plants 15 inches apart; h h b h, 

 furrows 4 feet li inch apart, or 4 

 ridges in a rod ; the plough, &c., 

 is used repeatedly between the 

 double rows. The manner of 

 carting off is to have the horse 

 walk in the furrow, h, and the 

 wheels go upon the edge of the 

 ridge at a, where the plants stood ; 

 but these have been pulled, topped, 

 and tailed, and laid on one side 

 away from where the wheels go, 

 and are ready for throwing into the cart, 

 of the following construction for dibbling swede and beet seed ; 

 he gets a wheel from the iron foundry of about 18 inches dia- 

 meter, has holes drilled in this, 7 inches apart, for \s., then wooden 



dibs about 1^ inch, ^-Q^ turned, and fixed in by 



a nail, the other part made by the wheelwright. If 

 too light, he has a stone weight hung on the bar, b ; 

 with this he dibbles mangel and swede seed at 7 

 inches apart, dropping the turnip seed from a bottle 

 with a large quill stuck through the cork, the seeds 

 are dropped with a jerk, and it does capitally. In 

 dibbling seeds like turnips, too many would be 

 dropped into each hole from the fingers ; but by 



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uses a dibbler 



