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In September, we hoe it in the manner we do 

 turnips, fetting the plants out at about a foot 

 diftance, and clear out the weeds. This hoeing 

 cofts three ihillings an acre, but it renders the 

 plants much ftronger than they otherwife would 

 be, and makes them produce more feed. 



If any part of the field mifs, we fill it up with 

 plants from the thicker part, in the latter end of 

 O&ober, or beginning of November, which an-. 

 fwers much better than tranfplanting them in 

 January; for in the latter cafe, fliould a fharp 

 froft fucceed, they would be moftly killed from 

 not being rooted; otherwife the fevered froft in 

 this climate will not injure them. 



The produce is from three to fix quarters per 

 acre, and the price laft year was from twenty to 

 twenty-two pounds per laft. 



The plants when young are in great danger from 

 flugs, who prey on them voracioufly. The beft 

 way of preventing this is to ftrew over the plants 

 a mixture of flaked lime, and wood-afhes; ten 

 bulhels of lime, and fifteen of afhes, are enough 

 for an acre. This not only deftroys the infects, 

 but promotes the growth of the orop greatly, fo 

 that it gets to a ftrong head before winter. 



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