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tillage to a degree that would make one believe 

 they wifhed to deftroy every principle of ad he- 

 fion in the foil. Any hufbandry, therefore, that 

 would exclude all this tillage, and at the fame 

 time keep the weeds under, is evidently an im- 

 provement upon this fy ftem. Upon good fands 

 there is fcarcely a better practice than fowing 

 winter-vetches for foiling, and ploughing the land 

 only once after the vetches for turnips; this ex- 

 cludes much tillage, but is inferior to carrots, 

 which admit no fummer ploughing whatever: 

 One earth given with a trench-plough in March, 

 and ample hoeings on the furface through the 

 fummer, feem to be the management of all others 

 the mod proper for this foil ; and if the crop be 

 left late in the ground, and the foil be very fandy, 

 to fucceed it with buck-wheat, for which any de- 

 gree of cleaning from couch may be given if ne- 

 cefTary. It muft not from hence be imagined 

 that I am an enemy to the Turnip Hufbandry; 

 which, in truth, is one of the greater!: improve- 

 ments that ever was introduced into the agricul- 

 ture of this kingdom. I am no more than en- 

 deavouring to fhew that there are advantages 

 attending carrots, which do not flow from the 

 other culture; and which render them an object 

 of very great confequence, though not to be pur- 

 fucd to the exclufion of turnips. 



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