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barley crop, as a better fallow for the purpofe can- 
not poflibly be given. In proof of the ineligibility 
of the mode in the uplands and wolds of this king- 
dom, (where, as before defcribed, the adoption of 
the plant is moft indifpenfably neceflary) and to con- 
front arguments continually advanced in fupport of 
it, the writer, during twenty years practice, fre- 
quently ftrewed feeds of this plant promifcuoufly 
with thofe of the common turnip; while their fub- 
fequent growth and appearance as conftantly fuper- 
feded the neceflity of any thing further for the 
purpofe, always wretched and diminutive, they were 
never for any other deferving of a thought. 
_ As a further proof of the wrong ideas hitherto 
entertained of the value and appropriate ufe of this 
plant, in the lift of premiums offered by the Society 
of Arts in the Adelphi, for its growth and applica- 
tion, a certificate is required of its weight BEFORE 
HOUSING, &c. 
After a long continued feries of praétice and ob- 
fervation, it is the opinion of the writer, (without, 
however, his having made any particular trials for 
afcertaining it) that the produce of an acre expended 
in the way above direéted, viz. during the rifing of 
its fap, would be worth that of four others at leaft, 
confumed at any other period, or by a different 
modé. He having, fome years fince, been repeatedly 
honoured with premiums by that refpectable body, 
for the culture of this vegetable, and his letters 
thereon, 
