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common method. The intervals may cafily be 

 cleared of weeds by the horfe-hoc. 



Great quantities of turnips are raifed. with us 

 every year for feeding black cattle, which turn to 

 great advantage. 



It is well known, that an acre of land contains 

 4840 fquare yards, or 43560 fquare feet; fuppofe 

 then that every fquare foot contains one turnip, 

 ami that they weigh only two pounds each on an 

 average, here will be a mafs of food excellent in 

 kind of forty-fix tons per acre, often worth from 

 lour to five guineas, and fometimes more. 



Extraordinary crops of barley frequently fuc- 

 cecd turnips, efpecially when fed off the land. In 

 feeding them off, the cattle fhould not be fufiercd 

 to run over too much of the ground at one, for 

 in that cafe they will tread down and fpoil twice 

 as many as they eat/ We generally confine them 

 by hurdles to as much as is fufficient for them in 

 one day. By this mode the crop is eaten clean, 

 the foil is equally trodden, which, if light, is of 

 much fcrvice, and equally manured by the cattle. 



A notion prevails in many places, that mutton 

 fattened with turnips is thereby rendered rank 



and 



