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in seed, and of keeping the land clean, the drill crops are gene- rally more productive, than those sown broad-cast. Barley, and other grains may, of course, be saved in like proportion; andwhen we reflect, with what difficulty, the poor labourer procures these essentials, towards the support of a life of toil, it surely is incum- bent on every one, to adopt and encourage all measures, however trifling they may appear, which create a greater plenty, and which can in the least tend, to alleviate the wants, of a quiet, and honest peasantry.

In addition to the various manures, and dressings, which the generality of Berkshire farmers,(to do them justice), liberally bestow on their land, I recommend the trial of pulverized oil cake, as a manure, peculiarly well adapted for a turnip crop. In Norfolk, it has been tried with great success, and a particular ac- count of preparing it, is inserted in Mr. Kent's Report of that county. The idea originated, I believe, with Mr. Styleman, a gentleman of considerable fortune, and a great cultivator at the West end of Norfolk; and the practice of it, is daily extending it- self. The chief parts of the process consist, in breaking the oil- cake, first with cogged cylinders, and afterwards pulverizing it with plain ones, each turned by two women: Then depositing it in the same grooves with the turnip seed, by the help of the

drill machine; using the bush-harrows afterwards.

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