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[ Wc are too apt Gnly to take the better fide of 

 a matter in which our judgment or our intereft is 

 concerned. An acre of Afh, &c. ipay be planted 

 for eleven or twelve pounds; but a very material 

 cxpence is here omitted, the fencing them from 

 the incroachments of common cattle, &c. which 

 cannot amount to lefs than eight pounds per acre. 

 We do not infert this to prevent planting, but only 

 that others may not be mifled.] 



Article XXXIII. 

 Mode of Cultivating Turnips in Suffolk. 

 [By a Gentleman Farmer near Ipfvvich.] 

 Gentlemen, 



AS the Turnip hufbandry, properly managed, 

 is the foundation of the beft fyftem of Agri* 

 culture hitherto difcovered, I take the liberty of 

 fending you an account of our method of raifing 

 that valuable root, which we find very advantage-' 

 ous, both as food for cattle, and as a clcanfing fal- 

 low for fucceeding crops of grain. 



In November, we plough m our wheat ftubbles, 

 and give the land four ploughings afterwards, at 

 fuch times as fuit our convenience. Previous to 



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