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(owing can fcarcely anfwcr; certainly with Mr. 

 Ducket's drill it might be done for a third of that 

 tw pence: Digging up 30s. an acre is equally ex- 

 travagant. 



To return: — The turnips were twice fown, a 

 part of them thrice, but were all eaten by the fly.f 

 I mud therefore minute what would have been 

 thcexpences had the crop fucceeded. It is eafy 

 to do this with great accuracy. 



£. s. d. 



Rent, tithe, and rates 170 



Five ploughings, 4s. each 100 



Seven harro wings at different times 040 



Rolling with two horfes 004 



Seed and fowing 009 



Hoeing firft 4s. 6d. fecond 2s. 6d. — — < o 7 *o 



The expence of carrots 



•f As foon as I found the fly had begun to attack them, I ga- 

 thered elder in full bloflbm, and laid it thickly in fpots of the field, 

 in fome places the flowers mafhed, in others the leaves the lame, 

 and I added it frefh and frelh ; but no attention of this fort would 

 preferve me a fingle plant. The fly leemed to devour the plants 

 as freely in thofe fpots as in any other. 



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