"Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that is destroyed for want of ODLET SECOND EDITION, REVISED. DUBLIN WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY, 1843. 29 DIRECTIONS ON PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. THE writer of these directions, in laying before the working farmers the manner of cultivating those crops which he knows will give great increase of produce, has only one object in view-the welfare of the people. Were the practice that will be detailed in the following pages adopted by the occupiers of the soil, there would be a great increase of employment for the labouring class, and a ten-fold increase of produce for the farmer. The writer is anxious to show the farmers how they can so increase the productiveness of their land as to enable them to meet all their demands, to enrich their farm, and add to their substance; and he trusts the farmers will follow the directions now given with spirit and with judgment. In full confidence of the advantages that must follow from cultivating land in a different manner from the present system, plain practical directions will now be given on the following subjects: --: Cultivation of mangel wurzel, Swedish turnips, potatoes in drills, rape, clover, lucerne; making manure; draining and irrigation; feeding cattle; cultivation of moor or turfy land; trenching the land, and the advantages of doing so; and planting trees. He trusts that the intelligent farmers will be awakened to their own interests, to the welfare and the elevation of their families, and that they will give these directions a fair consideration and an impartial trial. MANGEL WURZEL. The field fit for this crop is one which has borne a corn crop the year before. As early as you can, after the corn is cut, plough the field in the manner shown in the directions |