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1 beg pardon for thus trefpaffing upon your time 

 and patience, but I truft you will excufe my errors, 

 and alfo my prolixity, fince it has for its object the 

 prefervation of the health and happinefs of my fel- 

 low creatures. 



I am, Gentlemen, 



Your mod obedient humble fervant, 



Hampstead, THO s HAYES. 



Dec. $th> 1786. 



Article XI. 

 On the Culture of Rape or Cole Seed. 



THE proper time to fow Rape, broad-caft, is 

 the month of June ; the land fhould, previ- 

 ous to the fowing, be twice ploughed and well pul- 

 verized ; when about two pounds of clean feed will 

 fuffice for every acre, which fhould be equally caft: 

 upon the ground with the two fore-fingers and the 

 thumb; for if it be caft: with all the fingers, it will 

 come up in patches, and be the means of wafting 

 feed. When the plants appear, if they come up too 

 thick, a pair of light harrows fhould be dia n, 

 length-ways and crofs-ways, over the landj this 

 will equally thin them, and when the plants (that 

 the harrows have pulled up) are withered, the 

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