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Rape is an excellent food for fheep, and for this 

 purpofe it will anfwer well on arable land; but it 

 fhould be hoed and fet out as before directed, and 

 it will be the ftronger, and produce a much heavier 

 crop, if it be looked over a fecond time, and the 

 earth be drawn round the items; and mould there 

 appear any places where the crop has failed, it will 

 be right to draw plants where they are found too 

 thick, and plant them in the bare places; by which 

 means a more general and equal crop may be ex- 

 pected ; and that which is tranfplanted, will be fupe- 

 rior to any of that which has never been removed. 



The writer has experienced the good effecls of 

 tranfplanting rape, and begs leave ftrongly to re- 

 commend it; he advifes a plot of ground of about 

 a rood, to be fown in the middle of June ; this will 

 produce plants enough for ten acres, which may be 

 planted upon land that has previoufly borne a crop 

 of wheat, provided the wheat is harveited by the 

 middle of Auguft: one ploughing will do for thefe 

 plants; the beft of which fhould firft be felected 

 from the feed plot, and be planted upon ridges at 

 leaf!: two feet afunder, and fixteen inches apart in 

 the rows ; they may afterwards be horfe or hand- 

 hoed, and the earth fhould be drawn round their 

 ftems ; and in the fpring of the year this crop may 



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