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Article XXXIII. 



On drilling Turnips with Wheats drilled be- 

 tween the Rows. 



[By an Hertfordfhire Correfpondent.] 



Gentlemen 



I RECEIVED the premium-book fent by your 

 Secretary, for which you have my thanks. I 

 -will endeavour if poflible to procure fatisfactory 

 anfwers to your printed queries; but in the mean 

 time beg leave to inform you of an experiment 

 made by an ingenious farmer in my neighbour- 

 hood, which to me is new, but I think a very 

 good one. 



Having drilled a fmall field of fpring wheat in 

 rows two feet apart, a thought ftruck him of 

 fowing turnips in the intervals. Accordingly, in 

 May, he did Co by hand. The turnips came up 

 very well, and were thinned with the hoe once. 

 The wheat was a very good crop, and yielded 

 better than another field of about the fame foil 

 did, fown broadcaft in autumn, although it ri- 

 pened fomewhat later. On cutting it, the turnips 

 were no otherwife injured, than by having fome 

 of the large leaves trodden down by the reapers. 



After 



