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In the regifter of my Eajlern Four, I have given 

 feveral accounts of the experiments on this root 

 by fundry gentlemen, but mod of them practifed 

 t&ic l-nibandry in a defultory unconnected man- 

 ner, inltead of making them the part of a regular 

 fyftcm. 



In countries where turnips are not well efta- 

 blifhed, it is common to fee a man have a few 

 acres this year, and none the next; — a fure proof 

 the culture is little underftood. In the fame jour- 

 ney I viewed the farm of Mr. Billing, who gained 

 the premium of the London Society, for carrots, 

 which he cultivated with great fpirit for a few 

 years, and then totally dropped them. Thus, 

 gentlemen, we find that the[ culture of this valu- 

 able plant has made little or no progrefs, except 

 in that angle of Suffolk, where it was eftablifhed 

 two hundred years ago. , 



In order to promote the hufbandry in future, 

 we mud enquire into the circumftances that have 

 hitherto retarded it, 



I cannot attribute this to the expences of the 

 crop, though they are high: — Other articles of 

 cultivation have fpread greatly under expences 

 double, treble, and quadruple thofe of carrots, 



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