ARFTTITHLAL UTZ. UT

82 On the Culture'of Turnips, Tc.[Feb

will be obtained in our drill method, when the experiments are made ith the neces5ary accuracy-

When we 2dd to this increase" of produce, the Saving of expence in culture, including hoeing, and the augmentation of Produce in the Succeeding crops 3(which arises from the more fortifying mode of cultivation and the additional manure gained in consuning the turnips) and when we advert to the'mcrease of dung under proper management, we will readily perceive how greatly our husbandry will improve a district where the Soil is adapted to the culture of that valuable root.=-Po it we owe, in a great measure, the fertile State of the lands in the counties of Northumberland, Roxburgh,&c. where most of the Soil is far from the first quality.

But though by this Superior mode of culture, and judicious cropping,(which always Keeps the land fresh) we posSess the means of raising vast quantities of dung, and certainly do raise great quantities of that valuable article 3; yet, 1 am Sorry to 82y», that in many farms, we do not avail ourselves, to the utmost of our advantages.=-We are generally in the habit of leaving too much straw in the fields at harvest, and in neglecting to collect many other vegetable Substances,&c. which would greatly encrease our StocX of dung, and consequently the fertility of our lands.---In these respects, I think we are excelled by our brethren, in Several parts of the South.

Deill machines, of various descriptions, are ved for 5owing turnips in this district. Your Magazine for January, 1803, contains a-front and Side view, and description, of one,(by Agricola Norfolciensis) which, with a cylindric,* instead of 2 barrellike Seed box, is nearly Similiar to that in'general use.--- Those first used in this quarter, had but one wheel, which was moved along the tops of one-bout ridges; the coulter made a Small rut, in which the Seed was depozited from a Spout “to which it fell; from a tin vesse1 6.408 form of two frus- tums of 2 cone, or of a barrel.---Yhis vessel,(which was about ten inches long and Seven in diameter) contained, in the broadest part, SIX 97 eight small holes a few inches from each other, and was moved round by a jack chain passing from the axle of the wheel to a circular piece of wood(with a proper groove) fastened to the end of the Seed box.

Some disadvantages attendant on the Single wheel, led to the construction of two-wheeled drills; from most of which the Seed dropt in consequence of the sideways Shaking, or Sieve- like motion, mentioned by Agricola Norfolciensis.--Phe pre- ference given to these drills was principally owing to their Sowing Inore regularly, and straighter, than those from which the dropping of the Seed was occasioned by a circular motion,

+ Mot of the Seed boxes of this form, have two 5mall holes for the Seed to P23s into ths tin receiver, from which it falls into the rut made by the coulter