Dust-drill in growing Turnips. 



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can drill in dry weather at once ; 2ndly, that the manure is 

 better diffused in the soil for each rootlet to feed upon ; 3rd]y, 

 that you save the expense of the ashes required by the dry drill, 

 say for 24 bushels of ashes, at 2d. a bushel, 4^. per acre ; fourtlily 

 and lastly, that much less labour of horses and men is required 

 with the water-drill, especially now that by means of a gutta 

 percha pump, costing 4/., which can be purchased with the drill, 

 the boys who drive can fill the water-carts also. I find the 

 comparative labour as follows : — 



Dust-drill. 

 Horses. 



4 in drill. 



1 fetching ashes. 



1 supplying drill. 



Water-drill, 

 Horses. 



2 in drill. 



2 fetchino: water. 



6 



Men. 

 2 

 4 

 1 



Boys. 



1 with drill. 



0 mixing manure. 



1 with ash-carts. 



Men. 

 2 

 0 



4 



Bovs 



0 with drill. 



2 filling and driving water in carts. 



If the brook be less conveniently situated than on my farm 

 more horses and boys would be required for fetching water, but it 

 answers to fetch the water from a good distance. One farmer in 

 Wiltshire carries his water for the purpose two miles. The 

 water- drill is made at present only by Messrs. Reeves, at Westbury, 

 Wilts. It costs 25/. The prize dust-drill at Lewes cost 23/. 

 On these grounds it appears to me that, where water is at com- 

 mand within a reasonable distance, the water-drill should super- 

 sede the dust -drill altogether in flat- work for turnips, such as we 

 use in the south. 



Pusey, Dec. 1852. 



XXII. — On the Neglect of Chemistry by Practical Farmers ; its 

 Causes and Remedies. By Edward T. Hemming. 



Prize Essay. 



Part I. — The Causes. 



Causes of Neglect. — That the practical farmer has not hitherto 

 bestowed that attention to the study of the scientific principles 

 of his art which the importance of the subject demands, or taken 

 the share which peculiarly belongs to him in the advancement 

 of the science, must, I fear, be conceded by every one. My object 



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