1799-] 
for they take the longeft time before they 
all vegetate, of any weeds with which 
IJ am acquainted. Particular attention 
fhould be paid that none are fuffered to 
feed, and the land, if they abound much, 
“had better be ploughed again: if, how- 
ever, but few appear, they may be eafily 
drawn with a fet ftaff, and the beft time 
for performing that bufinefs, is after a 
froft, or in the fummer after much rain ; 
as they then come up the eafiefi: care 
fhould be taken, that no part of the root 
remains behind, as froma fmall part, a 
freth dock will arife. 
I think it no bad hufbandry, upon 
land proper for turnips, to take two fuc- 
ceeding crops of thefe very ufeful roots, 
for winter food. The fecond crop is 
procured at a {mall expence of culture, 
the land improved thereby, and it re-~ 
ceives a more perfect cleaning.—The 
firft crop, in that cafe, may be fown 
later, to be eat off after the other, which 
was firft fown ; this will give more time 
for working the land, for the purpofe of 
letting out the feeds, and exhaufting the 
weeds, that are in the foil. The fecond 
crop may be fown earlier, for eating off 
at the beginning of the winter; as little 
time and management will be neceflary 
to prepare the land for fowing. 
dtis frequently a practice with fome 
farmers, after they have laid their lands 
down to grafs, if many docks fhould 
{pring up, in order to get rid of them, 
to let them grow and thed their feed; 
as after that period, many of them will 
die, elpecially if they are arrived to a 
confiderable fize-—In cafe the lands are 
not to be broke up any more, this may 
not be a bad way, as the feeds will not 
grow, till after the lands are ploughed 
again ; but whenever they are ploughed 
again, though it fhould be many years 
atterwards, yet the feeds will then in- 
evitably grow, and produce a plentiful 
crop: and it will atterwards require fome 
time and pains to get the foil clear of 
them.—I recolleét a circumftance occur- 
ing fome years ago, which may ferve, in 
lome meaiure, to confirm what I have 
here advanced: In my own garden there 
Was a grafs-plot, in the middle of wiich 
grew a cherry-tree, which happening to 
die, the grafs-plot was dug up in the 
{pring, and planted with kidney beans : 
however, to my furprife, a fine crop of 
early turnips fucceeded; and upon dig- 
£ing it over in the following f{pring, an- 
other crop of turnips came, and fo on 
for feveral years: with this difference, 
that the crops every year became weaker, 
- Singular Cafe.of Rot in Sheep. 
IOr 
till they finally difappeared. I was at 
firft much at alofs to account for fo cu- 
rious an appearance, fill I recolleéted, 
that about feven or eight years. before, I 
had a few turnips of a particular ‘fort, 
which I hada ftrong defire to propagate. 
Having faved fome of them for feed, 
when nearly ripe, I cut, and tied them 
up in a bundle, and hung the bundle 
upon the cherry-tree to dry. Through 
fome negleét, however, when I came to 
look for it, I found, to my mortification, 
that the birds had eat, and pecked out, 
all my feed; a part of which, I have no 
doubt, having been fcattered upon the 
grafs-plot, produced the crops of turnips 
I thus had the benefit of, fo many years 
afterwards. lama slice 
Your humble fervant, 
March 8,1796. AN OLD Farmer. 

To the Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
1. the following relation comes within 
the plan of your Mifcellany, the infer- 
tion of it may, perhaps, as it relates to a 
matter of no {mall confequence to the 
agriculturift, afford an ufeful hint to 
fome of your readers. 
In the parifh where I at prefent re- 
fide, there is a piece of land, which has 
long been notorious for caufing the 
Kot in Sheep. It isan old {ward, on the. 
fide of a {mall hill, with a north-eaft af- 
pect ; the furface foringy and wet; the 
lub-foil confifting, at the depths of 24 to 
3 feet, of marle—the fuperftratum is of 
a moory nature.- About four years ago, 
the prefent poffeffor caufed it to be hol- 
low-drained, and the mot happy confe- 
quence has been experileficed from this 
improvement, as it has entirely ftopped 
the diiorder. 
Soon after under-draining, there was 
oblerved in the main courle, a great 
Guantity cf a jelly-lke fubfance which 
bore a ftriking refemblance to the flukes 
formed in the livers of fheep infected 
with the rot—this was, in the courlfe of 
the {pring, wafhed by the rains into a 
ditch where part of it lodged, and being 
attended to daily, was, in procels of 
time, obferved to be transformed into a 
{mall fnail, with an afli-coloured, {piral 
thell— Now, is it not probable that the 
theep, as they take their food particularly 
near the ground, receive fome of this in- 
fect matter, which ftaying in the fto- 
mach, thefe fAukes are there brought to 
Maturity ? 
Another 
