The straightness of the lines of verdure which, in a few weeks, mark the tracks of the seed-tubes, is surprising.

They are drawn and graded with such precision that, when the plants are at a certain height, a horse-hoe, with eight blades, each wide enough to cut the whole intervening space between two rows, is passed, hoeing four or five drills at once.

Of course, if the lines of the drill and hoe did not exactly correspond with each other, whole rows of turnips would be cut up and destroyed.

I saw this process going on in a turnip field, and thought it the most skilful operation connected with agriculture that I had ever witnessed.
One of the principal advantages Mr.Jonas realises in cultivating such an extent of territory, is the ability to economise his working forces, of man, beast, and agricultural machinery.

He saves what may be called the superfluous fractions, which small farmers frequently lose.