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limestone soil at Woodford, had for many years grown turnips 

 on the ridge system on all his fallow land. 



Mr. James Webster, of Peakirk, who farms extensively on a 

 deep black gravelly soil, has been substituting a crop of winter 

 beans and turnips as the fallow crop. The winter beans are 

 drilled in rows 27 inches apart; in the spring the beans are 

 horse-hoed between the rows two or three times at intervals ; and 

 in the latter end of June the turnips are drilled with a barrow- 

 drill drawn by a man, and a boy guiding it. The beans are 

 pulled up by women and children at an expense of 5^. to 65. 

 per acre, and tied up and carted home. The turnips are then 

 hand-hoed and set out in the rows, and the land occupied by the 

 beans well horse-hoed. I saw a crop of turnips thus grown this 

 year, and Mr. W. informed me that he had now adopted the 

 system for four years, and had grown upon the average 4 quarters 

 of beans and 1 6 tons of hybrid turnips per acre ; and he con- 

 siders by the consumption of the turnips on the land, with the 

 addition of some corn, that the land w^as in high condition for 

 the succeeding crop of barley. 



Mangold is grown on part of the fallow to some extent in 

 different parts of Northamptonshire. Mr. Thos. Robinson, farm- 

 bailiff to the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle Ashby, on a 

 mixed limestone and clayey soil, has communicated to me the 

 plan he pursued last year in the cultivation of mangold. The 

 land was manured at the rate of 16 or 18 tons of good farmyard 

 manure in March, and the manure ploughed in as soon as possible 

 to the depth of 7 or 8 inches. About three weeks before sowing 

 the mangold, about 8 cwt. per acre of pigeon and hen-roost dung, 

 mixed wdth soot, was sown broadcast and harrowed in. The 

 seed was planted about the middle of April, in holes drawn out 

 with a hoe, the distance between each hole being 18 inches. 

 The rows were 18 inches apart, thus making the plants to stand 

 18 inches apart each way. The plants were hoed, leaving two 

 or three plants until the next hoeing, then singling them out. 

 The weight per acre was upwards of 28 tons. 



Carrots are grown^ not to any extent, yet occasionally on a piece 

 of deep soil. The land is either dug or subsoiled with a subsoil 

 plough. They are generally sown or drilled on the flat surface. 

 Mr. J. Robinson, of Castle Ashby, was the successful winner 

 of the carrot sweepstakes last year at Northampton, and the 

 following was the system of cultivation he adopted. 



The land was ploughed and subsoiled to the depth of 12 to 

 14 inches in the month of February ; the carrots were sown b}^ 

 hand in the first week in April, in drills drawn by hand, 1 foot 

 apart. The seed was mixed with dry ashes to make it separate 



