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the laft ploughing, which fhould be in the latter 

 end of June, we cart on twenty loads (as nniich as 

 three horfes can draw) of rotten dung, or muck, 

 fronn the farnn-yard, turned up in April, or early in 

 Mi^.' Sometinnes, as lime is the readied and 

 eheapeft manure in thefe parts, it is ufed inftead of 

 dung, but I think the latter preferable. 



One cjuart of feed is fufiicient for an acre. New 

 feed will come up three days fooner than old. — 

 What is ploughed for the laft earth fhould be fown 

 the fame day, elfe, unlefs rain falls, the ground will 

 be too dry for the feed to vegetate. When the 

 turnips are within three days of being fit for hoeing, 

 if the weather be dry, we run a pair of light har- 

 rows over the field, in a diredlion contrary to that 

 of fowing, and before they are hoed the firft time. 

 We find this to be of much fervice. 



The Turnips fhould be hoed with a feven-inch 

 hoc, and left full twelve inches* diftant from plant 

 to plant. We always hoe them twice, and by that 

 means gain near double the weight in produce. — 

 The labourers, who by ufe become very expert in 

 this bufinefs, have three fhillings and fix-pcnce per 

 acre for the firft hoeing, and two fhillings and fix- 

 •pcncc for the fecond, with fmall beer. 



• Fourteen or even fixteen' is better. 



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