524 Drill for distrihitiiu/ Supeiyhosph'atc. 
the meailows; it is then pot-diingedj and drilled with 1 cwt. of 
superphosphate for swedes. The hop-clover is consumed after 
the sheep have finished the meadows, and served as the preceding 
piece for swedes ; and also the vetch-ground, with the addition 
of ^ cwt. of superphosphate to the foregoing quantity. 
The " hill " I sow, contrary to the most favourite notions of 
husbandry, with two white-straw crops in succession : the first 
wheat, the next barley, a moiety of which is sown with grasses ; 
the greater part of the remainder of the field is afterwards sown 
with vetches, the other part with rye. The following spring the 
rye is fed and afterwards drilled with 2 cwt. of superphosphate 
for swedes ; the vetches are also fed on the land, to which 1 cwt. 
of superphosphate is applied for rape and turnips for spring feed. 
The next year the sheep remain on the land while feeding the 
swedes and rape and turnips ; it is then pot-dunged and sowed 
with white mustard, which gives a little feed when keep is short; 
it is then ploughed once and sown with turnips for fall (or autumn) 
feed, for which ^ cwt. of superphosphate is used. In the same 
field, after the old ley has been fed, it is prepared with farm- 
yard manure (carted to the field in the winter) and folded, and 
treated in the same way as the turnip part of the field. 
The " bake " is divided into five fields, one of which is always 
down to sainfoin ; of the other four, one is sown with wheat, half 
of which is sown with broad clover ; next, half oats after wheat, 
half broad clover. Third year, half rye after oats, half oats after 
clover ; the rye fed in the spring, and drilled with 2 cwt. of super- 
phosphate for swedes. Fourth year, the manure of the swedes 
left when fed early in the spring of the year, pot-dunged, and 
drilled with vetches — the early winter variety I prefer — as fast as 
fed off; and in the latter part of March rape, drilled in the 
vetches, either across or between the drills, ^ cwt. of superphos- 
phate per acre ; the oats stubble sown with rye, pot-dunged, and 
folded, and 1 cwt. of superphosphate for fall turnips. All the 
manure from the fall-feed is left where made, in preparation for 
wheat. 
I have somewhat digressed from my original purpose to show 
that 2 cwt. of superphosphate is an ample dressing to procure a 
first crop of swedes, although the land has been considerably 
exhausted by the white crops ; and by leaving the manure as 
before described a very small quantity of artificial manure is 
sufficient to protect the plant from fly and other enemies in its 
early stages, and ultimately to produce a great quantity of feed. 
Since I have adopted this mode I have very considerably in- 
creased the feed of the farm ; and it may be seen by the fore- 
going statement that there is but little naked fallow for turnips. 
