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Article VII. 



Onlbe ^efi Method of pJan^ingMAUGLL-WvKZLLy and 

 fif its U/e and Value for feeding Pigs, Cattle, ^c^ 



To THE Secretary. 

 Sir, 



I Apprehend the beft and mod acceptable return 

 I can make your very refpedable Society for 

 the Mangel-Wurzel feed you were fo kind as to 

 fend me, will be to fend them a particular account 

 cf the method I ufed in the culture, and the ufes I 

 applied it to, with my obfervations thereon. It was 

 the beginning of April when I received the feed; as 

 I had no ground ready for fowing, it was the 13th 

 of the fame month before I could put it into the 

 ground, which was by no means in fit condition for 

 lowing; but as the feafon was already too far ad- 

 vanced, no time was to be loft. I had the ground 

 ploughed up in two-bout ridges, which makes them 

 about three feet wide from the middle of one fur- 

 row to that of another ; the tops of the ridges 

 about two feet, and the furrow or interval between 

 them one. By this method the mould on the 

 ridges was laid confiderably thicker, which is a 

 great advantage to tap-rooted plants of every kind. 

 My method of planting was as follows: 



I have 



