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In a field containing four acres, I firft grew a 

 crop of turnips, which were clean hoed, and left 

 very free from weeds; they were afterwards fed 

 upon the land, which was immediately (in the be- 

 ginning of March) manured with ten loads of 

 dung, firft ploughed in with a common plough, 

 and afterwards trench-ploughed about fourteen or 

 fifceen inches deep ; two acres of which were har- 

 rowed very fine, and the feed fown about the middle 

 of March, (though in general I prefer fowing to- , 

 wards the latter end of that month, as I have al- 

 ways found the plants corne up nearly as foon as 

 the earlier fown, and attended with fewer weeds.) 

 The carrots came up regularly and well, were 

 ready to hoe in the beginning of May, and tole-: 

 rably free from weeds; fo free indeed that they 

 were hoed out with large hoes, and proved an ex- 

 cellent crop. The other two acres (part of the 

 four which had been turnips) were prepared by 

 ploughing and manuring as for the carrots, and 

 fet with potatoes, which came up very clean, and 

 proved an abundant crop. In thp fucceeding year 

 I grew one acre of carrots (with the former pre- 

 parations) on the land where the potatoes grew^ 

 ^nd one acre of potatoes where the carrots ha4 

 grown; the other two acres were turnips. Ever 

 fince, for eight or t^n yea^s^ this field has growQ 

 <^^ turnips^ 



