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this fumigation alone; while the unf "umi gated or- 

 chard and neighbourhood had fcarce any apples 

 at all. 



Your moft obedient fervant, 



CHRIST. GULLETT. 



Article XIV. 

 Means of injuring full Crop of Turnips. 



Sir, Exeter, Nov. 24, 1786. 



THHE very great failure of Turnip crops, fo ge- 

 •*■ nerally and almoft annually complained o£ 

 in different parts of the kingdom, have occafioned 

 a variety of recipes to be publifhed, but which on 

 trial too frequently fail. The turnip feed itfelf 

 feldom fails to vegetate, (efpecially if fown juft be- 

 fore rain falls, and as fome fay, if left to itfelf, 

 neither harrowed nor rolled,, when fown dry and 

 rain foon follows) but the damage is occafioned in 

 its fubfequcnt (late of leafing, by the voracity of 

 infefts. To prevent this, feems the grand deftde- 

 ratum in turnip agriculture; and a moft defireable 

 one indeed it certainly is, as the lofs in turnip crops 

 this fummcr, in Devon/hire alone, is calculated at 

 upwards of ioo,oool. The ufe of deeps, &c. for 

 the feed, however, appears to me very little likely 



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