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the whole field, not fifteen-pence per acre. The 

 hand-hoeings coft the firft time 9s. ^id.; the fc- 

 cond time, 6s. 6id. or lefs than 3s. 5d. per acre. 

 The produce of a fquare perch, fairly taken, weighed 

 two cwt. 61b. which is about fixteen tons and a half 

 per 



acre. 



I fliall now obferve, that the expence of my 

 horfe-hoeing, and two hand-hoeings together, have 

 not exceeded what the hand-hoeing alone would 

 have amounted to, had the turnips been fown in 

 the common broadcaft method over the whole- 

 field ; — that the land is in excellent order for a 

 Lent crop on one earth; — and that I believe my 

 crop is much greater than it would have been if 

 fown broadcaft, and hoed by hand only, though 

 in the moft perfed manner. In that way, I doubt 

 whether this field, in its prefent poor ftate, would 

 have produced a profitable crop.* 



In this mode of fowing, two ounces of feed (if 

 good) would be an ample allowance per acre, if the 

 crop efcaped its enemies the worm and ihefy; but 

 if they invade it, two pounds may be infufficient. 

 I fowed upwards of fifteen ounces per acre laftyear 

 each fowing; of the firft, fcarcely a plant furvived; 

 and of the laft, fcarcely one plant in ten was per- 



• LanH^ of inferior value produce from 30 to 3; tons per acre, only 

 lund-liocUj but it ftiould be obfcived, that the foil is lighter and fandy. 



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