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r, I hope it will appear, that my fole mo- 
nding forward in this bufinefs arifes from 
rif to proniote the agricultural, viz. the 
tant, interefts of my country; and to ad-— 
minifter to the wants of my poorer fellow-citizens, 
by faving about 8,000,000 bufhels of wheat, 
3,000,000 buthels of barley, 1,000,000 bufhels of 
tye, 4,000,000 bufhels of oats, and 1,000,006 
buthels of beans and peas, which are yearly thrown © 
away in feed-corn, independent of the additional © 
produce, which by the new fyftem might be ob- 
tained.—Thefe laft calculations cannot be fuppofed 
to be accurate, but I fhould hope the aggregate — 
would not be very erroneous. 
This letter is protraéted to an unreafonable lengths. 
yet I muft, according to promife, give you an ac- 
count of an experiment I this year made upon foie 
turnips drilled, to me, in a new mode; but which 
was recommended by Mr. Cooxz, and fucceeded 
beyond my moft fanguine expeétations ; and alfo one 
upon the half-hufbandry. 
On Drilled Turnips. / 
TWO adjoining fields, of four acres each, — 
which I took laft Lady-Day, from a little farmer, in 
a very foul impoverifhed. ftate, were well pulverized 
and cleanfed by frequent fcarifying, rolling, and har- 
rowing. 
