THE

AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

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No. L] SECOND SERIES.[Voz. I.

FOR JULY, 1806.

« We may talk what we please of lilies and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a feld arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”: CowLEY«

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THE TULLIAN HOE-PLOUGH. [With a Plate annezed.]-

MALL's Scotch plough was used for hoeing by the late Sir Jobn Anétruther, and perhaps no other tool will do the business s0 conveniently and effectively in wide intervals. This ploúgh may be had in perfection of M‘Dougale, Ox- ford Street, London. Tull’s favourite method was, to drill on ridges, two rows of corn, or one of turnips, ten inches apart, and large spaces. without-side each row, as may be seen in the plate. In the end, Sir John Anstruthber preferred equidistant rows, whether of turnips,&ec. or corn.

Hereafter follow a few particulars of the practice and opi- nions of Tull, on the turnip culture.

«“ When I sowed turnips by hand, and hoed them with a hand-hboe, the expence was great, and the operation not half performed, by the deceitfulness of the hoers, who left the land unhoed, and covered it with the earth from the part they did hoe,(the writer of this article his been too oflen s0o served) and then the grass and weeds grew the faster: besides, in this manner a great quantity of land could not be managed in the proper season.

« When I drilled upon the level, at three foot inter- vals, a trial was made between those turnips and a field of the next neighbour's, sown at the same time,(broadcast) whereof the hand-hoeing cost ten shillings per acre; the lat- ter, measured by the bushel, had not quite half the crop of lhe drilled.

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