Agriculture of Nottinghamshire. 
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The season for sowing the common turnip in its several varie- 
ties is from the middle of June to the middle of July, although 
they are sown as late as August on land which has grown a pre- 
vious crop of tares. These late turnips, with good inanajement, 
form the most nutritious feed for the lambing ewes during the 
early spring season. A mixture of "white globe " and " purple- 
top white " is often sown for early feed in the autumn. The 
" green globe " is an excellent kind to succeed, and possesses this 
advantage, that it will bear the winter nearly as well as the Swe- 
dish turnip itself. The routine of cultivation for the common 
turnips is similar to that pursued for the swedes, excepting that 
they do not require the same high management that the latter do. 
Neither have they, in general, the same s])ace allowed, either 
between the drills or the plants themselves. Some prefer to sow 
them on the level furrow, and not upon ridges: such is Mr. Mil- 
ward's practice. After the land has been brought to a smooth 
surface it is manured, and the manure immediately ploughed in 
by a common furrow. The seed is then drilled in, and also the 
tillage, by one of the large Suffolk drills, at a distance of not 
more than 18 or 20 inches between the rows. Drilling on the 
flat has two advantages over the ridge method. The hasty 
showers in summer do not run from the roots of the plants so 
easilv as when sown upon ridges; and it also admits of the turnips 
being drilled much nearer between the rows, which in the white 
turnip is of service, inasmuch as where upon ridges only three rows 
could be had to secure the benefit of covering the manure better 
(which is the principal advantage possessed by the ridge system), 
four may be included in the same space ; and, although the turnips 
may be smaller in size, they are of lar better quality. The horse- 
hoe may be used within drills of 18 inches, but not at less, with- 
out danger of injury to the plants. Two pounds of seed is gene- 
rally thought enough of the common turnip to the acre. 
The early-sown turnips are generally ready to stock during the 
month of September, which is mostly done by turning lambs 
up(m them. These have been previously taught by the ewes to 
eat linseed-cake, and have an allowance of a quarter of a pound 
each until Christmas, which is then increased to half a pound, if 
they are intended lo be sold fat in the spring : a practice followed 
now very often, at least as regards the wethers. The choicest 
gimmers are more frequently reserved for breeding ewes : a pro- 
portion of one-fourth or one-fifth being supplied each year, by 
which means the flock of ewes is always young. 
Second Year. — Barley. 
Of late years it has been common, from the very low price of 
barley, to sow all the early cleared turnip land with wheat, either 
