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and livery." " Again, I can grow more weight of turnips per acre on the flat- work 
17 inches apart, than I can on the 27-inch ridges." Mr. Tingey adds, " My system 
of growing turnips on heavy land is this : 1 spread seven loads per acre of yard 
manure, plough it on 12-fiirrow ridges (3 yards), drill six rows on a ridge, 
with ten bushels per acre of bone-dust, taking three drills up one side and three 
down on the other, the horses walking in the furrows. By this method I am most 
certain of plant, and can grow the greatest weight per acre ; and the laud lies in a 
much better form for keeping itself dry at Michaelmas, or when you want to get 
the turnips off, than when it is hoed flat from the ridge system. It ploughs lighter 
and in a better state for barley, and will work much better, and more like light land 
in the spring, if you can plough it up soon enough to have the benefit of the frost. 
By this plan I can get two or three coombs more barley per acre than when my 
land has been ridged." 
On Mr. Hudson's farms a few days after the plants appear the land is horse-hoed 
by an implement which takes one row and two half-rows at a time ; a little buck- 
wheat is now sown at wide intervals (about GO yards) for the game, which is covered 
by the horse-hoe. The young turnips are hand-hoed with 9-incli hoes for 2s. 
per acre, at which work the men earn from 2s. Gt?. to 3s. per day. After a few 
days the turnips are singled, and the weeds picked from around the plants for 
Is. Grf. per acre, many persons only giving Is. per acre. Horse-hoed a few days 
after that, and as soon as possible hoed a second time, breaking up the soil and 
drawing it round each turnip, for 3s. per acre. Horse-hoed again, with a tri- 
angular hoe, three rows at a time, drawing or " crowding" soil to the plants. 
Sometimes another horse-hoeing. 
I met with several extraordinary instances of difference in 
opinion on important points, but none more remarkable than this, 
as to the distance at which turnips stiould be set from each other 
in the rows. — Mr. Marsham of Stratton Strawless, Mr. Hudson 
of Castle Acre, and Mr. Blomfield of Warham, are supposed to 
be as good authorities on agricultural matters generally as any 
other persons in the whole county, yet Mr. Marsham hoes his . 
turnips with a 4- inch hoe, Mr. Hudson one of 9 inches, and Mr. 
Blomfield leaves his 18 Inches apart in the rows, or two in a yard. 
All three sow them on 27-inch ridges ; but Mr. Blomfield sows 
only Swede turnips, Mr. Hudson nearly all Swedes, and Mr. 
Alarsham rather a large proportion of white turnips. This in 
some degree accounts for their difference in opinion. My own 
opinions on this subject are already known to the Society.* 
In September Mr. Hudson begins to draw off white turnips for lambs on second 
crop clover or wheat stubble, in order to gradually accustom them to food of so 
opposite a nature to what they have had before. This is continued about six 
weeks, the quantity of turnips being increased, as the sheep become accustomed 
to, and acquire a liking for, them. In doing this Mr. H. takes six rows and leaves 
twelve to be fed ofl' on the land. In October, puts the lambs on turnips, 
cutting them all with Gardiner's turnip-cutter. The sheep are kept in by hurdles 
and nets. Mr. Hudson prefers hurdles between the diflerent flocks, nets before 
and behind, also on the sides of the folds. Where there is little game, nets become 
proportionably more suitable. Each sheep is allowed half a pound of linseed- 
cake, and two or three pints of cut clover-hay, per day, in addition to all the turnips 
he will then eat. Cut turnips are given to the sheep in troughs. One-third 
of the turnips intended for cattle, &c. is drawn topped, tailed, and loaded on carts ; 
the remainmg two-thirds " placed" for 4s. per acre on the whole quaiility ; the tur- 
nip-tops are thrown on wheat stubbles for store cattle. Three sheep-feeders (a 
man and two boys working together) top, tail, and cut the turnips, move the 
* " Prize Essay ou the Drill Husbandry of Turnips."— R. A. S. J., Vol. iv. Part I. 
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