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fown with rape; the plants came up, were very pro- 

 mifing, and fit to put out the 20th of June. I 

 had prepared a feven-acre field, which had borne 

 potatoes two years, after being well manured with 

 the common clay gravel, and had it then in fine 

 tilth for turnips. As I had no conception that the 

 rape would rife to fuch magnitude as to injure the 

 turnips, I marked outfurrows with one furrow of the 

 plough at ten feet afunder; laid the rape plants at 

 eighteen inches apart againft the upright fide of the 

 furrow, and covered the roots by returning the 

 earth which the plough had thrown out with eigh- 

 teen inch hoes ; I then fowed the whole field with 

 turnip-feed by a drilling-machine of twelve inches 

 apart, and bufh -harrowed and rolled in the feed 

 without injury to the rape plants. The rape fuc- 

 ceeded beyond any cxpedlation I could have formed, 

 fb as to overfliade and injure the turnips for eigh- 

 teen inches, at either fide, which in the intermediate 

 fpaces were a very fine crop; as nearly as 1 could 

 calculate, two acres of the feven were occupied by 

 rape, and the remaining five by turnips'; the rape 

 continued to flourifh until the ift of November, 

 at which time it averaged upwards of twenty pounds 

 per head, (feveral came up to forty;) fuch was the 

 amazing luxuriance of the crop, that I dreaded its 

 not ftanding the winter j and on the ill day of 



November 



