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I h2LVc{uocQf^^d\y followecj. the advice .of Sir 

 Thomas Bee v,or in raifing turnip-rooted cabb:ige;ia 

 drills, and horfc-hoeing the intervals, eating., thena 

 off with llieep after iny turnips^ .apd iixiuiediateiy 

 fowing buckwheat (hardly known before here); and 

 afterwards wheat. 



In othef. fields I have 'pl^rrteH potatoes, well 

 ploughed the intervals, drawn thero with the plough 

 at Michaelmas, and immediately .fowri: wlie^t. 1' 



Beans anfwer as a fallow crop in the fame way, 

 and I have no doubt but the mangel-wurzel will 

 anfwer the fame intention. 



After fending fmall parcels of the feed you fent 

 me laft March, to as many of wir Members as have 

 farms, I fowed the reft very thin in drills two feet 

 afunder (which fhould have been three feet]) we had 

 very little rain in April, May, or June, and many 

 died; about Midfummer I thinned them to about a 

 foot afunder, and made other parallel rows in the 

 fame field, and when the rain came they grew ama- 

 zingly, arid I ploughed the intervals as I ufually do 

 to potatoes and beans. In Auguft I drew fome of 

 the collateral leaves for iny cattle and hogs,' but 

 the neceflary attention to the hay and corn harVeft 

 ^which this year came very inconveniently together) 



prevented 



