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fliecp. They will thrive more on rape-feed plants 

 in one month, than on turnips in two, if put in 

 foon after Michaelmas. In this cafe, when the 

 crop is fed off, we plough it up early in the fpring, 

 and always have a good crop of barley. But this 

 method is not generally pradrifed; for it requires 

 great care and pains to clear the land of the rape- 

 feed plants, which would, if not dcflroycd, foon 

 grow up above the barley, and injure the crop. 

 And befides, whenever rape-feed is at a tolerable 

 price, it is not making the moft of it to feed it off. 



There is one thing to be obferved in ploughing 

 for rape, which in general is little attended to; and 

 that is, when you plough for fowing, plough north 

 and fouth, if your field will admit of it; and then 

 the land when fown will lie full faced to the fun, 

 :\m\ receive a greater fhare of its influence. 



The greatclt inconvenience that attends this 

 plant is, that its ftraw is neither good for (lover 

 or manure; but we burn it into pot-alh to tole«* 

 rablc profit. 



If thefc few hints prove in any degree fatisfac- 

 tory, it will give pleafure to 



Your's, &c. 



JJirch near Colchcitcr. J. B. 



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