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Agriculture of Nottinghamshire. 
into a stack, and after remaining there until dry, used as a bottom 
for the manure in the yards, where it is useful in absorbing the 
drainage of urine. 
This method of using the quitch-grass has been objected to, 
but we think without sufficient force, on the ground of its being 
liable to grow afterwards : to obviate this it is only necessary to 
see to its being dry before it is so applied. 
It was the practice of an excellent farmer to apply salt by way 
of assisting the process of decay ; and we doubt not that the idea 
is well worthy of the attention of all who desire to make as much 
manure on their farm as possible, — which certainly will be the 
object of every farmer who duly estimates its value. 
If the season is favourable for cleaning the fallows, when they 
receive the last ploughing before winter, they are not unfrequently 
so perfectly tilled as to be in a fit state for the reception of the 
seed, which on the dry soils of Nottinghamshire is an advantage 
that can scarcely be too highly estimated, or too much sought 
after. As the winter rains then succeed, the land requires to be 
but little disturbed in the following spring, but remains cool, and 
is far more certain of producing a crop of turnips than if exposed 
by repeated ploughings during the drying months of the spring 
season. 
In the winter months as the manure is made it is carted out of 
the yards into the fields where it is intended to be used in the 
approaching season for the turnip crop. Tliere are various 
modes of preserving it during the interval which ensues. The 
one we are inclined to believe the best is, to have it thrown 
up into hills out of the carts by hand, and not, as is more fre- 
quently the case, run upon by the carts, to prevent thereby — 
what is, after all, an erroneous idea — its overheating. By throw- 
ing it lightly together the fermentation is equal throughout, and 
will be found so when it is again disturbed. Instead, however, 
of allowing the gases to escape by exhalation, we would, by all 
means, recommend a covering of soil to be thrown upon it, sides 
as well as top, of not less than 6 inches deep : by which meajis 
those gases are repelled back upon the manure itself, and there 
fixed, instead of wasting themselves on the " desert air." 
Manure so treated will require nothing more doing to it until 
within a fortnight or three weeks of the time of using, when it 
ought to be turned, and again covered witli the same soil. The 
expense of covering is very trifling, the advantage attendant ujjon 
it very great. There is no need to cart the soil from a distance, 
but only to make a trench round the manure, the same as if 
covering potatoes for the winter. 
'i'lio usual season for sowing the swede tmniji rommonces the 
last week in May, or the first in June, and continues till about 
