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Article XIX. 



Account of a Crop of Turnips raifed on poor Clay Soil, 

 between rows of Beans, hand-hoed and horfe-hoed. 

 With ohfervations an Drilling and Hotfe-hoeing 

 Turnips. 



[By R. P. Akderdon, efq; in a letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, Henlade, Feb. ii, 1784. 



THE infpediors having viewed my experimen- 

 tal crop of turnips fown in drills, I now 

 take the opportunity of replying to your queries, 

 and adding a few ohfervations. 



The piece of land which this crop grew upon, 

 contains five acres and four perches. 



The foil is a poor cold wet clay, with a fall to- 

 wards the north; value only ten fliillings per acre. 

 This was certainly unfavourable to a turnip crop, 

 except by way of experiment, to fee what fuch 

 land would produce in the mode I propofed to 

 cultivate them. 



In the year 1782, this field was drilled with tur- 

 nips, in rows three feet afunder; the feafon being 

 uncommonly wet, the crop was a very poor one; 

 but the alleys between the rows being horfe-hoed, 

 the Lent crop was put in on one earth. 



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