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and children, no skill being necessary; about 2lb. of 
seed is drilled to an acre. 
In some other places, I saw turnips drilled on level 
land, at about 9 inches, but the greater part of this 
crop is, at present, sown broadcast. 
Mr. C. has made comparative experiments on the 
effects of muck and lime, and both on turnips and the 
succeeding crops, and reports as follows;—*■ 
No. 1. Muck and lime, both for turnips; turnips, 
barley, and seeds good. 
No. 2. Muck only for ditto ; turnips rather inferior, 
barley better, seeds good. 
No. 3. Lime only for ditto ; turnips inferior, barley 
three-fourths the former, seeds better than either, and 
after three years pasture, the land equal. 
Mr. C. reports a piece of land in his occupation, 
sown with turnips, being so full of chadlock, that no 
hoeing, or weeding, could master it the first year ; it 
was, therefore, fallowed for turnips a second time the 
ensuing year; the chadlock came up very thick after 
the first and second ploughing^ and harrowings; but, 
after another ploughing, became clean, and has con¬ 
tinued so ever since. 
Mr. C. thinks turnips upon light land, should al¬ 
ways be sown upon a clean turf fallow, or after rye 
and vetches sown in August, and eaten off by ewes 
and lambs the April following; in this rotation they 
scarcely ever fail, will do with less manure, and the 
land will produce more grain afterwards by many 
bushels per acre, either of wheat or barley, than when 
it has been previously exhausted by cropping from 
the turf. He prefers, for early sowing, the tankard 
turnip, the white Norfolk, and the bell; or some of 
each sort; for the second sowing the stone, and for the 
last the early Dutch. 
WORCESTERSHIRE.] H But 
