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In January 1783, fourteen cart-loads of dung and 

 earth were carried to, and fpread upon two parts 

 of the field, which feemed poorer than the reft. 



In March, it was ploughed once, and fown with 

 double rows of beans about a foot afunder, with 

 alleys more than three feet wide between the 

 double rows. 



In May, the alleys were horfe-hoed ; and in the 

 beginning of June, rolled with a finall fpiky roller; 

 then horfe-hoed again, harrowed, and fown with 

 turnips the latter end of that month. The crop 

 came up well, but was deftroyed by the worm be- 

 fore the plants were in the rough leaf. The fame 

 alleys, without any further horfe-hoeing or plough- 

 ing, were drilled a fecond time with turnips on the 

 1 6th of July, and produced the crop fliewed to the 

 Infpedlors. This crop was hand-hoed the firft 

 time about the middle of Auguft, and a fecond 

 time about a month after, when the plants were 

 thinned out as near as poflible to nine inches afun- 

 der, and the alleys moved by going about [i. e. up 

 and down] in each of them, with the fliim, or Kent- 

 ilh horfe-hoe, which promoted the growth of the 

 crop moft amazingly. The tuinips were of the 

 Norfolk, round white kind, having a few of the red 

 mixed with them. The horfe-hoeing was done 

 with one horfe, at the fmall expence of fix fliiliings 



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