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THE TARMEr’s manual. 
“ Tn the broad-cast method, the after culture must 
of course be confined to hoeing, or as Tull calls it, 
tcralching. 
“ In England, the hoer goes in when the plants are 
about 4 inches high, and hoes all the ground over, 
setting out the plants at the distance of about 18 
inches ; and if the ground becomes foul, he is obliged 
to go in again in about a month afterwards, and hoe 
the ground again. This is all that is done, and a 
.very poor all it is, as the crops on the very best 
grounds invariably show, when compared with the 
ridge crops.” 
Transplanting. 
“ This is a third mode of cultivating the Ruta Ba- 
ga, and, in certain cases, far preferable to either of the 
others. My large crops at Botly, (England,) were 
from roots transplanted. 
“ I prepared one field of five acres, and another of 
twelve, with ridges in the manner described for sow- 
ing, and on the 7th of June, in the first field, and on 
the 20th of July in the 2d, I set my plants, as in sow- 
ing, 12 inches asunder. I ascertained loan exact- 
ness, that there were thirty-three tons to the acre, 
throughoui the whole 17 acres, and after this, 1 have 
never used any other method. 
“ In my usual order, the rows 4 feet asunder on 
the ridges, there are ten thousand eight hundred and 
thirty turnips on each acre of grountf; and therefore, 
for an acre of ground to produce thirty-three tons, 
each turnip must weigh nearly 7lhs. 
“ From a large field 1 afterwards set on the 13th 
of July, I weighed one waggon load, which averaged 
eleven pounds each, and several weighed 14lbs. 
which would probably give fifty tons to the acre. 
“ 1 will now give a full account of my transplant- 
ing at Hyde-Park, (Long-Isl. nd, in America,) be- 
tween the 2lbt and 28th of August; the season re- 
markably dry. 
