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Article V, 



Practical Objervations on Jundry Letters in the Third 

 Volume, and on the Advantage of Friendly Societies, 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 



Sir, Stifted-Hall, EJfex, June ao, 1787, 



I Beg leave to acknowledge the favour of the 3d 

 volume of the Papers of the Bath Society. At 

 the 53d Article, Mr. Lamport, from an obferva- 

 tion of a common hufbandman, enquires the reafon, 

 why old turnip-feed fhould efcape the ravages of the 

 fly more than the new ? — I take the liberty of in- 

 forming you, that on the fuppofition of its doing 

 fo, our beft farmers mix together for fowing half of 

 each, in the whole a quart for an acre broadcast ; 

 and find that the new feed vegetating firft, and pro- 

 bably poflefling fome greater fweetnefs, affords 

 occafionally fufficient food for the fly, till the whole 

 is grown, flrong enough to efcape. The mere 

 chance of this benefit, for a vegetable crop fo very 

 important, is a fufficient inducement for its prac- 

 tice ; they are here never hand-hoed lejs than twic$ 

 at 8 s. an acre, beer included. 



Sir Thomas Beevor's account of his trial, in the 

 fame mode of culture, of the turnip-rrooted cabbage, is 



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