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Article XV. 



On the Culture of Mufard; — Remarks on the Trifo~ 

 Hum Alpejire-, — on the NeceJJity of Change of Arti- 

 ficial Grafs Crop, &c. &c. 



SIR, Stified-Hall, Efex, Dec. 14, 1786. 



FN order to anfwer, as fatisfactorily as I could, 

 **" your enquiry about the cultivation of muftard, 

 I fent for one of the feed-cultivators, of which there 

 are feveral in this neighbourhood -, efpecially about 

 Coggejhall and Kelvedon. Thcfe men hire, at very 

 advanced rents, a few choice acres bf the farmers j 

 cultivate them, merely for the feeds of various 

 fpecies of pulfe, roots, herbs, and even fome flowers, 

 with the utmoft gardening neatnefs ; and fpeculate 

 upon the chance of produce, fale, and price, in 

 which they have fome little portion of the acute- 

 nefs of an alley-broker, — like him fluctuate from 

 very great profits to fome lofTes : but if they can 

 Hand out contingencies, fucceed upon- the whole 

 amply enough. 



The white muftard requires rather an heavy foil, 

 which muft by tillage be brought into a nice mould i 

 muft be fown in March at one bufhel an acre; be 

 always twice, and frequently three times, hoed, and 



fet 



