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Experhncnls on Manures. 
No. 4. 50 bush, of salt £. s. d. Cwt. st. lbs. 
and lime . . full cost 2 10 0, jji oduced 5 4 1 of bulb. 
0 7 10 of top. 
6 3 1 1 per square chain. 
11 6 7 of bulb. 
I 5 8^ of top. 
13 4 1-J per square cliaiti, 
10 0 4 of bulb. 
1 5 0 of top. 
115 4 per square chain. 
The frost setting in early, I was not able to weigh these turnips till 
the early part of the following February — the most proper time I take to 
be the middle of December, as the turnip has then acquired ils full 
growth and has lost its superfluous leaves : when weighed the turnips 
were carefully drawn and the mould well knocked off, the fibrous roots 
and tops were then carefully cut of!', and weighed as shown above. 
The turnips were sown on the flat and put in thus : — two ploughs to 
each acre, one with and the other without a small drill attached, thus 
drilling every alternate furrow, and depositing the seed in the earth as 
soon as it leaves the mould-board, or, as we call them in Norfolk, the 
plats; immediately after the land is rolled and harrowed — this mode I 
always pursue — conseqiiently my rows are from 26 to 30 inches apart, 
and the plants in the rows I have left at from 14 to 18 inches apart; 
and from my slight experience this is not too much room. 
The turnips on Nos. 2 and 5 were the first by two or three days to 
come to the hoe, while those on No. 4 were the last by some three or 
four days : the above results show a loss when compared with No. 6, to 
a considerable amount ; but I ought to say No. 6 lay under a warm 
fence, and that although the several acres lay contiguously, yet each 
would be farther into the field, and therefore more exposed. 
The turnips were as nearly as possible eaten off in equal quantities on 
each acre by sheep, and the barley sown in the early part of April; at 
its first coming up there was no perceptible difference, but after a short 
time, it being very dry weather, on examining, a diff'erence could be 
discovered, Nos. 3 and 4 not looking so well as the rest ; but about this 
time some kindly showers coming, 3 and 4 so far recovered and over- 
took the rest, that at harvest there was so little apparent diff'erence, I 
did not think it worth keeping them separate; the land is laid down 
with red and white clover and rye-grass, and at this time, Feb. 22i)d, 
the clover on Nos. 1 and 2 are looking somewhat bolder in the leaf, and 
better in the set, but no very marked difference, and so early in the 
spring one must not judge. 
Last summer I again tried some experiments on turnips, which were 
treated in every way in jjrecisely the same manner as described in the 
previous year's experiments — with regard to the cultivation — and first, I 
will give the diff'erence between the purple-top swede and skirvings, 
grown in the same field on alternate ridges ; they were weighed on the 
13th of last December, and I had 
5. 20 sacks black-hole 
malt screeniniTs . do. 3 3 4 do. 
6. Soil simple . . • • • do. 
