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mif-ftate the fa&, which I fhould not have ventured to give, but upon the very beft authority; for it is fo great, that I am fenfible it will occafion fome furprife. I record it here with fatisfaction, for two reafons; firft, becaufe it affords the cleareft proof that turnips

], 0 value to: as i can be reared well on clayey foils, as I have often experienced

we

oe and fecond, that owe are reared in Scotland to a larger fize in 9, Al general than perhaps in any other country, as I had ventured to

| hint at in the agricultural furvey of Aberdeenfhire, publifhed by the Board of Agriculture.

(1, page 244.)'Turnips may be carried off even a clayey foil,

a larger fize ie)

p them toa: uae:

without poaching it, by the following contrivance. Let the tur-

llowing wel

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nips be fown in drills at a convenient diftance for horfe-hoeing, ' fay three feet, and let them be propetly earthed up for the laft

time to as great a depth as the plough can go; let care be then.

s lalt felon taken that no clods be fuffered to remain in the bottom of the fur- VETY perfon row, to detain the water when rain falls. If this be carefully at-

jamong the 9) tended to, the rain will run clear of as foon as it falls; and that wet

ch a turmip poachynefs, which is frequent on fuch lands, will be in a great mea-

his fabie&, fare prevented. Let no animals of any fort come upon the field

to be pulled after this laft hoeing, till the turnips are to be carried off.

ympany were Have a cart provided, of the nature of a waggon, having three

rly pounds. wheels, two on one end, placed at fix feet afunder, and one at the

Geld at a fo- other end, exaétly in the middle line of the cart; of courfe the

y, one turn! two firft wheels will ftretch over two rows, and the wheels go

and, rubbifa exactly in the outfide furrows of thefe; the other wheel will go

in the furrow in the middle that divides the two ridges. This

yp A HALF

weighed be- cart may be drawn by one horfe, or by two, one before the other; the Duke of the horfes will go in the middle. In this way, neither the horfes ‘been taken nor the wheels will touch the plowed land; the cart being intro-

+e weil duced at one end, and drawn along the courfe of the fame ridges ning

Se as far as is neceflary for loading the cart. When it is loaded, the y perions@ 5’ yf

ral horfe or horfes fhould be unyoked,(the cart refting as a waggon

rect me,}