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About Midfummer, take the firft opportunity 

 when it rains, or there is an apparent certainty of 

 rain approaching, to Tow your turnip-feed, if about 

 the full moon the better. In this cafe neither 

 harrow, brufh, nor roll, after fowing. The natu- 

 ral heat of the ground at that fcafon, and the 

 confequcnt fermentation occafioned by copious 

 rain, will give an aftonifhingly quick vegetation 

 to the feed, which in a few days will be up and out 

 of all danger from the fly. At all events, fow not 

 till it rains; it is better to wait a month, or even 

 longer, for rain, than to fow (merely for the fake 

 of fowing about the ufual time) when the ground 

 is parched with heat. By the fcorching of the 

 fun, the oil and vegetative quality of the feed are 

 cxhaufted ; and the few weak plants that come up 

 will be deftroyed by the fly, before they can attain 

 ftrength to put forth their rough leaves. The fly 

 infeft the ground abundantly in dry hot weather, 

 but do no injury in rain. 



The falling rain will fufficiently wafli the turnip 

 feed into the ground without harrowing it in, 

 which, inftead of merely covering, too often bu- 

 ries this fmall feed at fo great a depth as that it 

 never afterwards gets above ground. 



I am, your's, &c. 



Hxcter. C. GULLET. 



