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Laftly. The greater your fuccefs in providing a 

 good plant, the greater will be the necefiity that 

 the crop be well and carefully hoed ; without this, 

 the great advantage to be derived from a good 

 crop of turnips, would in a great meafure be loft. 

 Twice hoeing is often fufficient for this purpofe, 

 efpecially if the land be pretty cleans but if it be 

 foul, three times is hardly enough. Hoeing in 

 many places is not well underftood, although it be 

 an operation of very little difficulty. Practice is 

 neceflary to give dexterity to every kind of work : 

 but a labourer, who has been ufed to work in a 

 garden, and knows the ufe of a hoe, would not 

 only perform it well himfelf with a few hours' in- 

 ftruction, but could teach all the labourers in a 

 parifh in a few days, which would greatly reduce 

 the price of that bufinefs, it having been exorbitant 

 hitherto in many places. 



The bufinefs, however, might be made eafy, and 

 much expedited by well hoeing the turnips as foon 

 as they arrived at a proper ftage of their growth j 

 that is, when they have four leaves -, and where the 

 turnips are thick, they might be well harrowed a 

 fecond time, at the diftance of a fortnight or three 

 weeks. This would not only thin the crop, but 

 alfo greatly improve and encourage the growth of 

 the remainder. In this fituation the hoers would 



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