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ever a good crop, and in the fpring he fet the 

 plants out with a turnip-hoe, leaving them about 

 a foot diftant from each other. But I prefer the 

 drill method, as it faves more than half the feed. 

 The land was a poor dry gravel, not worth three 

 (hillings an acre for any thing elfe. 



The fevered froft never injures this plant; and 

 the oftcner it is fed the thicker are its leaves, which 

 fpring conftantly from its root. 



With refpect to the drill hufbandry, it is much 

 on the increafe with us both in wheat and turnips, 

 and fucceeds to admiration. Many of our belt 

 farmers adopt the Norfolk method, and hoe be- 

 tween the rows, which is found fo advantageous, 

 that it mud certainly in time make its way over 

 the whole kingdom. 



We often fow turnips between the rows of drilled 

 beans, which fucceed well, as the beans do not 

 check their growth. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your mod obedient fervant, 



H.D. 



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