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lime: by a like management, dung, or any other 

 manure, would prove equally ufelefs. 



Your idea of the turnip hufbandr y is perfe'(5lly 

 juft ; but an effe6lual method to prevent the ravages 

 of the fly remains, and I fear will ftill remain, a 

 defideratum in hufbandry. 



One obfervation, made by our farmers, I have 

 generally found to be juft- to wit, that the mif- 

 chiefis greateft in the midft of the landj and have 

 frequently found, that when every other part of the 

 crop was deftroyed, two or three ridges next the 

 hedges have efcaped all injury. This, with fome 

 Other particulars, carefully attended to, may, here- 

 after, lead to fome method of preventing the evil. 



I am, &c. 



':IM 



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