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the horfe-hoed turnips weighed very confidcrably 

 more than a (kipper full of the broad-caft, which 

 ihewed that the plant had received great nourifh- 

 ment, and an iniproved confiftence, from the horfe- 

 hoe, which produced fo much more weight of 

 turnips than the hand -hoe, in the like fpace or 

 compafs, and proved the horfe-hoed crop to be of 

 more value iA fadb than it appeared to be to the 

 eye, in comparifon with the other. 



But now for the prince of farmers, Mr. Duckitt, 

 oi EJher-place. In April 1788, I vifited his farm, in 

 company with Meffrs. Young and Macros but not 

 having time enough then to make all the obferva- 

 tions I willied, I vifited it again in July following. 



Mr. Duckitt*s farm is the mod complete, and 

 kept in the cleanefl and bed order, of any I ever 

 faw. He ploughs his lands into beds wide enough 

 to contain nine or ten rows of the crop fown in it, at 

 nine inches afunder, for the mod part. His farm 

 at Eflier is about 500 acres, of which nearly 400 

 are arable. The land is moftly fand on a gravel 

 bottom; but fome of it clayey, and moft part of it 

 heavy enough for beans, at lead for the fmaller fort, 

 tick, or horfe-beans. 



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