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be fed off with fheep, when very little other green 

 fodder is to be found, or the leaves might be ga- 

 thered and given to oxen or young beads; from 

 the fame Items frefh leaves would fprout again, and 

 thefe might be fed off by ewes and lambs, time 

 enough to plough the land for a crop of barley or 

 oats j but it muft not be forgot that planting rape 

 upon land the beginning or middle of July, would 

 be the moft advantageous as to the crop of rape, as 

 the leaves might be then fed off in the autumn 

 feafon, and they would dill produce other leaves 

 anew in the fpring; and this method of early plant- 

 ing might be adopted where peafe or beans had 

 been gathered green, and fent to a market, or where 

 any kind of pulfe or green fodder had been fed off 

 the preceding fpring. 



The expence of planting rape varies according 

 to the price of labour in the different counties; but 

 the moft general price, where rape is planted on 

 ridges two feet afunder and fixteen inches apart in 

 the rows, is 2s. 6d. or 3s. per acre ; but where every 

 plant is to be equidiftant, or 16 inches every way 

 apart, on a flat furface, 3s. 6d, or 4s. per acre is 

 about a fair price, provided in either cafe the grower 

 finds a woman or boy to draw the plants from the 

 feed plot, and to drop them before the planter. 

 When they are thus planted, they may be hand- 

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