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these rows should then be looked over, and, with a shovel, a little 
earth put over any portion not well covered up with the plough. 
These are ploughed out in the spring, cleaned, and thrown in 
heaps ready for cutting for the sheep. Another plan is to pull 
them, and take only the leaves off, and heap them, and cover with 
straw and earth, and clean them as required for use. Others 
heap them in small heaps just as pulled up, and cover with straw 
and earth. By some they are pulled and set upright on the 
ground, close to each other, in a round bed, and the edge of the 
outside row covered with a few moulds of earth. In bad sharp 
weather a little haulm or straw is scattered over the tops. Each 
plan has its advocates ; but the great secret in keeping them is 
not to cover them up too close, as they are sure to heat and rot if 
they have not sufficient air. Less damage will be sustained from 
the covering being slight than when well covered up : the top of 
the heaps should have no earth put on them, so as to admit 
air. 
The land intended for mangold- wurzel is twice ploughed and 
scarified, the same as the turnip land, and put on to the bout or 
ridge in the autumn, then dunged in the spring. These ridges 
are then split down, rolled with a very light roll, the seed either 
drilled or dibbled. The mangold is stored for stock ewes, fat 
sheep, and beasts, and not used till late in the spring, bearing in 
mind that a careful attention to provide sufficient food of this 
kind for the spring enables the farmer to keep off his seeds 
until they are sufficiently advanced lo carry his stock on well. 
Some farmers have a portion of the turnips carted on to a 
piece of fallow which has a plant of self-sown trefoil, or white 
clover, it having been seeded when in the seed-shift the previous 
year to the wheat crop. These turnips are either ploughed into 
furrows or clumped up in about 30-bushel heaps, great care being 
taken not to have the tails cut off, and only just the leaves taken 
off, not cutting into the crown of the turnips, and then covered 
with straw and earth. Mangold is also clumped in a similar 
manner, for the purpose of feeding with sheep in the spring. 
This plan has two advantages : it enables the farmer to get off his 
barley land a week or two earlier, and to keep off his seeds a 
week or two later ; and these are two objects that cannot be too 
much attended to by occupiers of light land, for by sowing late 
on our turnip lands we suffer considerably in our crop of barley, 
and by being under the necessity of turning out on our seeds 
before they are got sufficiently a-head, we suffer for the remainder 
of the season, and can scarcely get a full fair bite again. Many 
sow a warm, well -sheltered, quick-growing piece of land with 
rye and the early Essex winter tare mixed, two bushels of rye 
and one bushel of tares per acre. This is used for the ewes and 
