f gese:] 
be remembered, that the whole is only equal to a 
fingle ploughing, and that the two partial hoeings 
may be executed for, or nearly, the fame price that 
is ufually given for hoeing an acre @f turnips; and 
as the procefs will not be neceflary where the land 
may not be too condenfed, and foul for fubfequent 
crops, it will be obvious that a better method cannot 
be adopted as preparatory for thefe, while the grow- 
ing one will be, perhaps, in an equal degree availed 
of its benefits. 
The time proper for feeding being arrived, (about 
the middle of April, fooner or later, and indicated 
by the tops of the plants, after having lain dormant 
awhile, putting on a bufhy appearance, as before 
defcribed) the fheep are to be introduced to them, 
as to common turnips, with hurdles, &c. and the 
roots to be preparatorily pulled up with a light mat- 
tack-like hook, having a claw on one fide of about 
nine inches length, with a tranfverfe edge at its end 
of about two inches width, and on the other a kind 
of hatchet, or more properly cleaver; with this the 
roots may be taken up with eafe, its handle, of about 
three feet and a half in length, aéting as a lever for 
_ the purpofe. When the root is up, it receives a 
ftroke or two with the fide of the implement, by 
which its fangs are in a degree divefted of their 
dirt; and another with the hatchet, or cleaver, on 
its back, which divides it in two; by fuch divifion 
the fheep’s teeth being introduced to the centre of 
the 
