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divisions only, the rotation of crops is, 1. turnips; 2. barley; 3. clover; 4. wheat; but more frequently it is let to remain longer under grass. It must be expected, that where every person follows his own ideas, there will be variations. The following improved courses have been communicated to me by able cultivators.

Mr. Wright of Ranby, whose mode of management has been adopted by several of his neighbours, 1. breaks up three year old lay for wheat on one ploughing; 2. tur- nips; 3. barley and seeds to lie three years. If a poor lay, prefers breaking: 1. for turnips; 2. barley with seeds, viz. Tye grass, white clover, sometimes trefoil or hop clover, a little red clover, but does not like it, as hurting the rest. He pastures his first year’s seeds with beasts, as sheep do harm the first year.‘The beasts are bought in at Mi- chaelmas, kept the day on turnips, the night on straw. The seeds are ready for them by the time the turnips are done, and they go off fat in May and June. He weans his lambs about the fourth of June, and puts them on after the beasts,

16lbs. and Mr. D. thinks the average of the crop$lbs. and much to exceed in tonnage per acre common turnips.

“* Mr. Daikin gave them also to hogs, cattle, and sheep. They are excellent for hogs; and sheep being let into the field before the common turnips were destroyed, gave so decided a preference to the roota baga, that they would not settle on the common turnips, while the others were to be had.

«¢ The methed of giving them to horses, is to cut eff the tap-root, to wash them, and to cut them roughly with a perpendicular hoe, and then given directly, without keeping them to dry. The horses ate them with avidity, and seemed even to prefer them to corn. Their qualities appear to be singular, as they bind horses instead of relaxing them, as other roets do. One mare was kept intirely upon them and straw, worked every day, did well, and never looked better: this mare was more bound by them than the rest. They have astrong effect upon making the coats fine, and one or two, affeéted by the grease, were cured by them, as they aét as astrong diuretic. Inthis mode of application, one acre maintained fifteen about two months, and Mr. Daikin is so well convinced of the utility of the plant, as well as many of his neigh- kours, that he intends, and they also, to increase the cultivation much.

«¢ Mr. Daikin suspects there are two sorts of the roota baga, because some upon cutting are white within, but in general yellow3 otherwise of the same external appearance. The ycllow is the best.”