60 FARMER'S CALENDAR.[MaAyY.

"y-. 1,>, ia Jan ority of common turnips over the Ruta-Baga, if

drawn together in autumn, chiefly as to the larger quantity of the former, but he still allows the latter

to be more substantial, and the yellow kind to bear

some afhinity, in taste and quality, to the carrot. He used them only with sheep and swine. It will be of use to the cultivator to reflect, that as this root is frost-proof, no good objection can lie a- gainst early sowing.. For Turwrp-roorep Cap- BAGE, see Index.

Hops are to be digged and hilled up this month, the stones turned up being carried off the planta- tion. The weeds must be pulled, or cut up clean. Towards the end of the month, or the beginning of June, the vine will be ready for tying to the poles; the strongest vines must be chosen, and constant attention paid to retie such as become loose by accident. The old plantations are also poled this month.

BuRN-BAKING, OF PARING and BURNING the surface of the soil.—This ancient practice is the best possible improvement of Bog, Moor, Heath, and Fen-land, or in general, of any old tough sward, overrun with moss, rushes, and other rub- bish, the nettings and roots of which cannot be de- stroyed nor the earth pulverised by the common methods of husba indry, under great length of time, and at vast expence; after w ee be ae. the land will not be in so good or productive a state, when burned. E very agriculturist knows, roe Is an old subject of dispute in husband ry; but what I have seen, and the evidence I have ee of the practice, incline me to be its decided advocate,

without,