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particularly happy if the intelligence I am enabled 

 to communicate upon that fubjed:, fhould be 

 thought worthy the attention of your very refpeda- 

 ble Society, or in the leaft degre ctend to promote 

 the good intentions of fo laudable an inftitutiort. 



The foil proper for the cultivation of this ufeful 

 root is a fandy loam, of about feven or eight (hil- 

 lings per acre; that on which I have ufually grown 

 them is of a fharper nature, and not fo valuable. 

 I have varioufly fown them after turnips, fummer- 

 land barley, and pe^fe fet upon a rye-grafs ley; the 

 crop upon the firft has generally been moft produc- 

 tive; next to that I fhould prefer the latter. In the 

 firft inftance we feed off the turnips by the begin- 

 ning of February, and then lay the land up on fmall 

 balks or furrows, in which ftate it remains until the 

 fecond week in March, when it is harrowed down, 

 double- fun owed to the depth of about twelve 

 inches, and the feed fown thereon, at the rate of 

 four pounds and an half to the acre. As foon as 

 the plants appear diftindly, they are fet out with a 

 fmall hoe, at the diftance of fix inches from each 

 other; they are afterwards hoed twice more at dif- 

 ferent times, according as the crop feems to require 

 it ; and it is not unufual to harrow them between 

 the hoeings, which does no injury to the root, and 

 frequently faves the expence of a third hoeing: for 



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