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little more ; and I have never paid more for hoeing 

 them, than for common turnips. 



^, 3, The colour of the plant being darker than 

 that of a turnip, and more difficuH to diilinguifl^ 

 from the charlock, which generally abounds in tur-.. 

 nip fallows, particularly the moft early fown, is i^, 

 not another reafon why the hoeing Ihould be more 

 difficult and expenfive ? 



A, My workmen fay, they can readily diftinguifh 

 them from charlocks \ and have never yet charged 

 me more for them. 



^ 4, How many times arc they hoed, and at 

 v^hat price ? 



A, This muft depend partly on the feafon; they 

 are generally twice hoed, 4s, for the firft hoeing, 

 and 2s. for the fecond, 



^ 5. Has it ever been obferved, that the.hard- 

 ncfs of the root affedls the fheep -s teeth \ that objec- 

 tion having been made to them by fhepherds ? 



A. Not keeping any breeding Iheep, but only 

 wethers, which are fold fat after having fed on themt 

 in the latter part of the fpring of one feafon, or twQ 

 at the moft j I have never obferved the mifchief 

 charged to them. 



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