pared for turnips in autumn; and were it practised, we need not
despair of raising heavy crops of turnips, especially Swedes, on the
strongest soils, and most certainly they would be obtained after
thorough-draining."--(Vol. iii. pp. 748, 751.)

To the _drop_-drill as a means of husbanding manure, too little attention
has hitherto been paid in Scotland. We strongly recommend, therefore, to
the attention of the Scottish farmer, the following brief quotation:--

"The saving of manure, in the first instance, by the use of the
drop-drill, appears to be considerable, since it has been frequently
asserted that ten or twelve bushels of bone-dust per acre, will
produce a braird equal, if not superior, to sixteen or eighteen
bushels put in by the continuous mode. The subject is, therefore, of
great importance, and calls for close observation; for if the drop
system is really so important, it cannot be too widely
adopted."--Vol. iii. p. 806.

We regret the necessity of passing over the remainder of this chapter on
turnips. We merely extract the following mode of preventing the
destructive attack of the turnip-fly, because, though the method has been
heard of by many, it has been tried by comparatively few. Mr Stephens
recommends

"To put the seeds for some time before they are sown amongst flour of
sulphur, and sow the sulphur amongst them. The late Mr Airth informed
me, that when he farmed the Mains of Dun, Forfarshire, his young
turnip crops were often very much affected, and even destroyed, by
these insects; but that, after he used the sulphur, he never suffered
loss, though his neighbours did who would not use the same
precaution, and that for as long as he possessed the farm afterwards,
namely, fifteen years."--(Vol. iii. p. 772.)

It is also with regret that we pass over the making of butter and cheese,
the chapter upon which we commend to the attention of our dairy farmers.
The subjects of hay-making, liming and forming water meadows, we also
pass; but we stop a moment at his chapter upon flax and hemp.

The culture of flax is now very much advocated both in Great Britain and
Ireland; and we fear very erroneous notions are entertained and propagated
regarding both the profit it is likely to yield to the farmer, and the
effect it is fitted to produce upon the land. The following passage is
not entirely free from objection, bu