278 On the Farming of Suffolk. 



having a bottle as here described, the seed is dropped in equal 

 number. With the same dibble he marks the ridges for cab- 

 bages at 21 inches, passing over 2 holes, and planting the cab- 

 bage in the third; and when transplanting swedes, he leaves 

 every other hole. To secure a plant, he dibbles beet and mangel 

 at 7 inches, but hoes up every other knot of plants, leaving them 

 at 14 inches. His dibbler admits of one end of the axle moving 

 further back, so that when dibbling ridges the man does not walk 

 on the ridge but in the furrow. 



The root-crop is variously used, and it may be said with cor- 

 rectness to be given to cows, fat and lean cattle, sheep, and hogs. 

 Beet affords food for fat cattle during spring and some part of 

 summer, and is sometimes given to fat sheep, and to ewes and 

 lambs in the spring. Turnips are stored by some for fattening 

 purposes ; some remove them daily from the field where they 

 grow, to be thrown out on pasture land for lean cattle or sheep, 

 while others exercise the precaution of carting early from the 

 field, and setting them up close together in some convenient spot 

 of ground : the objection to this is, that the tops decay and make 

 the roots in a dirty state. 



Draining on arable land is done during the fallow, and is as much 



1 2 3 



]. Drain before it is filled up. 2. Drain filled with tile. 3. Drain filled with turf. 



Drain No. 1. 

 a 9 Inches ploughed out. 

 h 9 Inches dug with Broad Spade, 

 c 12 Inches dug with Narrow Spade. 



30 total depth. 



f 



(ly Broad Spade for Digging Top Spit. e, Narrow Spade for Bottom Spit. 



/, Scoop for taking out the Crumbs after the Narrow Spade. 



10 10 20 30 40 50 Inches. 



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