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readily diftinguifh all that were proper to be cut up 

 from thofe that are to remain, whereas, mould it be 

 deferred till they are over-run with charlock and 

 other noxious weeds, the labour and difficulty would 

 be more than doubled, and could never be per- 

 formed fo well. I have feen a field of turnips fo 

 entirely over-run with weeds, that the hoer worked 

 as it were in the dark, and chopped away at ran- 

 dom. Three weeks or a month fooner, the work 

 might have been done at half the expence, and to 

 more than three times the advantage. 



As to the mode of planting, I am of opinion that 

 the broadcaft is the molt productive, if the hoeing 

 be properly performed and in good time. How- 

 ever I am much inclined to think, that the mode 

 of fowing turnips between beans planted in rows, 

 as recommended by feveral of your correfpondents, 

 is a much more certain means of infuring a crop. 

 It exactly correfponds with all my obfervations on 

 the fuccefsful vegetation of that root. A confider- 

 able degree of moifture is necefiary to the rapid 

 vegetation of that very juicy root, and nothing re- 

 tains moifture equal to fhadej and made can be 

 obtained and fecured by no means fo effectually on 

 a large fcale, as in the intervals of tall growing 

 plants, as beans or wheat planted in drills. 



My 



