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than any taken then frefh from the field. I never 

 faw, as far as I could conjecture, a more advantage- 

 ous piece of culture j nor where the land (as in the 

 two preceding years, from the crop of barley after 

 the carrots they had experience of) feemed from a 

 vegetable crop in fuch a pron/ifing ftate as this. 

 But I muft obferve on carrots and potatoes, it is not 

 the crop produced from a frelh foil, but that, where 

 like turnips they have been cultivated in a regular 

 rotation after corn, and for a feries of years, which 

 muft determine their fair value and ufe, both for 

 confumption, and preparatory to whatever corn 

 crop may fucceed them. 



Turnips have had a long, and cabbages fome 

 trial, and, with carrots and potatoes, feem to pro- 

 mife a vegetable crop after a corn one, fuitable, 

 either one or the other, to almoft all the various 

 arable foils in this kingdom. 



In Article 1 9th, on Mr. Anderdon's drill-culture 

 of beans and turnips, you juftly obferve the fame 

 foil cannot be fuitable to two crops of fuch an 

 oppofite nature. But the farmer, in the rotation of 

 bis crops, under the common husbandry, and from 

 the neceflkies of his (lock of cattle, muft frequently 

 hazard vegetable ones on foils little congenial to 

 them, and reft his chance of fuccefs on that of the 



feafons $ 



