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$dly. It is of great confequence to have feed that 

 is both good in quality and of a good fpecies. I 

 prefer the large green -topped, as being the fweeteft 

 and moft juicy. Some prefer the red or purple- 

 topped as being hardier; but of which ever fort 

 you fow, if the feed be from the largeft and fined 

 tranfplanted turnips, it is greatly to be preferred, 

 even if it coft double or treble the price of the com- 

 mon fort. I have frequently bought of the feedfmea 

 in London, but it is generally of a mixed kind, and 

 often a great part not worth cultivating. I would 

 therefore recommend it to the farmer to buy the beft 

 fpecies he can get, let the price be what it may.* 



4/£/y. As to the quantity of feed, I am pretty 

 much of opinion with another of your correfpon- 

 dents, who advifes to be fure to allow feed enough, 

 and to that end thinks the fafeft way is to allow 

 two pounds to an acre, though it is common with 

 many to fow but one. Suppofing the feed to be 

 good and the feafon favourable, a few ounces would 

 be fufficient to (lock the land ; but as the article is 

 fo very precarious, it is by far the fafeft way to 

 allow iced in plenty, and reduce them afterwards 

 by well harrowing the ground. 



• Thi» remark of Mr. Wimpey's is of great confequence : and for the reafon* 

 he aifigns, the Secretary of the Ba,th Society makes a particular point of keeping 

 a fupply of the fincft turnip-feed for luch gentlemen and farmer* as apply to him. 



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