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8//j/>'. It doubles the crop on any ground,* which 

 I have had experience of. 



<)thly. You have (under Providence) the crops 

 more within your own povver in thisy than in any 

 other method, let the feafons turn out as they will. 



lothly. You may have, on the fame ground, a 

 bean and a turnip crop annually, if the land be 

 fuitable, and you think proper. 



iithly. The clay farmer by this mode renders 

 land, which is naturally unfit for turnips, fo free and 

 open, by feafonable horfe-hoeings, that it will 

 bring that ufeful plant to great perfedion.f 



Many of thefe advantages are peculiar to this 

 mode of cultivation, exclufive of, and fuperadded 

 to, thofe that attend the turnip crop itfelf. 



But fetting thefe fuperior and extraordinary ad- 

 vantages afide for the prefent, may it not be worth 

 the attention of the Bath Society, to confider how 

 far it may be eligible to offer a premium for the 

 bcfl: comparative trial between an acre fown broad- 

 caft with turnip feed, and twice hand-hoed; and 



• This we cannot help doubting very much, and think Mr. A. too 

 fanguine in his expectations. 



f Notliing renders a clay foil fo free and open, as to have It expofed to 

 frorts and fiiow, by being laid up in high ridges in January and February} 

 which, on Mr. As plan, cannot be done j unlefs the turnips are leffened in 

 value, by being fed off in autumn. 



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