MANURING. 
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for the Swedish turnip, after common turnips, eaten 
mostly on the ground by„.sheep; draws five and some¬ 
times six tons at a load ; and several hundred tons in a 
season, or in the whole year. The price of good stable 
manure in Birmingham, seven shillings per ton: one 
of bis loads thus costs from 35s. to two guineas, be¬ 
sides the carriage. 
Mr. Knight, upon his*farm of Lea Castle, Wolver- 
Jey, manures with great spirit, but principally for tur¬ 
nips; he buys all the soot he can get, at Kiddermin¬ 
ster, and other towns within his reach, the price Sd. 
per bushel, the soot-merchant sowing it on the ground; 
a waggon will hold with tilted side-boards, and a team 
will draw, 200 bushels ; a load thus costs 61 . 13s. 4d.; 
but it is sown upon four acres, 50 bushels to an 
acre, the expense of sooting an acre is, therefore, only 
]]. J3s. 4d. It is generally sown upon the turnip fal¬ 
low, and harrowed in before the last ploughing, but 
has been found to answer in every way, and as well as 
any, to top dress mown grass land. 
Lime is also very freely used for turnips, about four 
tons per acre, besides drawing it from a canal to the 
land, the price is 14s. 6d. per ton; this is 2l. lSd. per 
acre, besides carriage and spreading. 
The remaining source of manure in this county, be¬ 
sides those before-named, is sheep folding; this is regu¬ 
larly practised in the open fields upon the fallows, but 
rarely in the enclosed lands: Mr. Knight has, how¬ 
ever, made several experiments on folding sheep, 
which he means to continue. — See Folding, under the 
Article, Sheep. 
Mr. C. says, marl is an excellent change of manure 
for the kitchen garden, where, if you would have the 
sweetest and best kind of garden stuff’, it is not proper 
to 
