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the winter; and the few that remain can feldom 

 avoid deftruction from the ploughfharc. 



This is a more effectual means of cleanfing lane's 

 of weeds than has hitherto been ufed, and coniider- 

 ably leflens the labour of turnip-hoers. 



Article XLI. 



On /owing Turnips and Grain, and on fome of 

 the Difcouragements which prevent Improve- 

 ments in Agriculture. 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in Effex.J 



Gentlemen, 



I HAVE lately been favoured with a fight of 

 your firft volume of felect papers, and find 

 many very ufeful things contained therein: but I 

 wifh your correfpondents would principally attend 

 to fads eftabliflied only by experience ; for philofo- 

 phical opinions, unfupported by facts, appear to ma 

 to bewilder rather than eftablifti and inform.* 



• We are in general of the fame opinion with our correfpondent ; 

 i fome cafes, a philofophical explanation of the operations of 

 nature, which (apparently) feem to contradict each other, will be 

 found neccflary and ufeful, as well as entertaining to fuch of our rea- 

 ders as have ftudied agriculture as a fcience. 



To 



