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mental information I am able to fend you, will re- 

 quire your indulgence to accept of with any tole- 

 rable degree of complacency. 



On the 30th of May 1788, I had four acres of 

 turnip-rooted cabbages fown in the random or 

 common method of turnip fowing, which, growing 

 very thriftily, were hoed out the firfl time on the 

 I ft of Auguft following, and again a fecond time on 

 the 1 6th. Thcfe plants endured the long and fe-r 

 vere froft of the fucceeding winter, without the leaft 

 injury, though three-fourths of all the common 

 turnips in this county were deftroyed by it. 



On the 2ift of April 1789, I caufed (in order t6 

 afcertain tjie quantity) twenty feet fquare of them 

 to be taken up from three different parts of the 

 field, which being weighed, I found the average 

 produce to exceed, by fix pounds, twenty-four tons 

 and a half per acre i though at this time their tops 

 had not fprouted above three inches in heights for 

 thefe plants I was offered by fome neighbours ten 

 guineas per acre, but as my want of green food was 

 great, I would not accept of it, or indeed of any 

 greater fum for them. 



If farmers v/ould obferve, they could not but 



learn, from their repeated experience, the very little 



• dependance 



