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To give a full anfwer to your printed queries, 

 would make a fmall volume; and as I have at 

 prefent but little time to fpare, I fhall only hint 

 at fuch of them as are mod generally important. 

 Of thefe, Turnips claim our firfl: attention, as be- 

 ing the bafis of all good huibandry. 



The mod certain way that I have found of get- 

 ting a good plant, is to make the land clean and 

 fine as foon as the weather will permit, and to 

 fow four pints of feed per acre. It may bejuftly 

 objected, that if the fly does not take them, the 

 plants will be fo thick, that they cannot be eafily 

 hoed. This I will readily grant; but they may 

 eafily be thinned in that cafe, and made fit for the 

 hoe, by harrowing them firfl. But when you fow 

 only a pint per acre, and the fly takes them, there 

 can be no expectation of a crop. When I have 

 fown four pints of feed, I have not in one inftance, 

 as I remember, miffed of a plant, although the 

 fly has fometimes deftroyed more than half of 

 them, and much damaged the other. 



One of your correfpondents has given you a 

 good account of his manuring his land well to 

 make the turnips grow quick, thereby fpeedily to 

 get into the rough leaf, in which ftate the fly will 

 not touch them. But every farmer who fows a 



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