On Horse -/i or hg Flat-drilled Turnips. 
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liooins: in a turnip-field, while the hue of the neighbouiinor wheat 
invited the rcajier. In the following week the sickle and scythe 
were busy in the corn, but I saw turnij)S spoiled because the time 
of thinning thcni had gone by. It was clear, therefore, that turnips 
sown flat ought, if possible, to be horse-hoed : and soon after, in 
visiting some farms of Lord Yarborough's, near the Humber, I 
found the turnips flat-drilled, and a horse-hoe commonly used on 
ihem. I found too the expected saving. The horse-hoe is of the 
same width with the drill, so that all the rows passed through by 
it have been sown at once, and are therefore true to each other : it 
cleans about six rows at a time, stirring the ground close up to each 
row. One horse, I found, is able to scuffle 10 acres in a day. Soon 
afterwards a man and child hand-hoe the rows, setting out the 
plants to the right distance, for about 5s. an acre. Generally no 
more hand-hocing is required, repeated horse-hoeing is suflicient. 
Here then is a saving of As. or 5s. per acre ; and saving is the 
most certain profit. The turnips are better too for the more fre- 
quent stirring they receive from the horse-hoe. I will not describe 
the implement used in Lincolnshire, because a more perfect 
one has been invented by Messrs. Garrett, which has received the 
Society's prizes, both at Liverpool and at Bristol. As any mere 
trials, hovvcver, are less satisfactory than actual work on a farm, I 
have obtained an account of its working from practical authority, 
and the following statement of its performance will, I trust, be 
satisfactory. Several farmers, I know, regard this horse-hoe as one 
of the best implements lately invented. On an arable farm of 
400 acres, the price, which varies from 19/. to 13/. 10s., might be 
s;ived by its use, I should think, in the first season : — 
To Mr. R. Garrett, Leiston JVurhs, Siifolk. 
Dear Sir, — Knowing that there must be considerable difficulty in a ma- 
nufacturer's introducing a new ngricultural implement, however good, 
into general rise without testimonials from those who have tried them, 
I am desirous of stating to you my opinion of your patent horse-hoe, at 
far as my experience will allow me. 1 first used it in hoeing beans, 
drilled at intervals of 12 inches on 10 furrows, or 7 feet 6 inches 
stetches. The land at the time was so dry and hard, I was afraid the 
hoes would break, or not cut through the crust. However, I can say 
the work v.as well done; and that, without the horse-shoe, the hand- 
hocs could not have been used so soon, which followed to cut the weeds 
in the rows. I found no injury done by the hoe cutting the plants, as 
some persons might apprehend ; but much of the correctness of the 
work of the liorsc-hoe must of course depend on the drilhng being well 
executed. I think it advantageous to the hoeing that a drill, covering 
the whole stelch should be used, as the hoe covering the same quantity 
of land is more likely to fit the work. 
I had considerable experience of the efficiency of the horse-hoe in 
cleansing turnips, and I can say that the work was done to the admiration 
