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AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

No. LXV.)] DECEMBER, 1804.[Vor. XI.

METHOD OF PRESERVING TURNIPS FROM THE FROST.

To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

SIR, PHE Magazine, containing the requeſt of Agricola Nor-

thumbrienſis, that I would communicate to your readers our method of preſerving turnips from the froſt, not being ſent me till it was too late to ſend any communication for in- ſertion in the ſucceeding number, prevented my complying with his requeſt at that time. I fully intended to have ſent it the following month, but I underſtood from Agricola Nor- folcienſis, that he had already done it. As for ſome reaſon his letter did not appear in the Magazine, I will thank you to inſert this in your next, though I am afraid it will be too late for any advantage to be gained by it this ſeaſon.

If the turnips are ſown in the Northumberland method, a double breaſted plough is paſſed up every fourth or ſixth fur- row; the turnips are then drawn from the ridges on each ſide and placed in it, two or(if they are ſmall) three abreaſt in an upright poſition; the mould is then thrown up to the turnips, by a common plough paſſing up each ſide of them. Ia doing this, it will be neceſſary to uſe a long pulling tree, and to have a boy to lead the horſes, to prevent their treading on the turnips. If they are ſown on a flat furface, I prefer making the furrow with a bout of a ſingle plough, as it will be found very difficult to make them ſufficiently deep and wide with a double one. A better method, I think, is to cart the turnips from the field where they were grown, to onée that is intended to be ſown with turnips the following year, as the ſucceeding crop of barley is frequently very much injured, by the turnips remaining on the ground late in the ſpring. The additional expence will not exceed five Ihillings an acre. If any of your readers wiſh for a more particular deſcription, I muſt refer them to the 21ft volume of the Tranſactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences, where they will find it communicated by the ingenious inventor himſelf, the Rev. T. C. Munnings, Rector of Howe, in this county, who received from that ſociety the gold medal for the invention.

Notwithſtanding what has been advanced by your two northern correſpondents, I ſtill retain my former opinion, of the impolicy of giving bounties either on the importation or

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