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yet in a better foil, or in the fame when better cul- 

 tivated and manured, a foot or fourteen inches in 

 the rows would be preferable. 



I defire it may be underftood, that I do not claim 

 to myfelf any merit as an introducer oi dnWmg in 

 rows, and horfc-hoeing turnips ; or of drilhng them 

 between a crop of beans. I have only happily 

 adopted thofe modes of pra6lice. The Jirjl was be- 

 gun by TuLL;* has anfwered well in Ireland ; and I 

 am happy to find, by the fecond volume of your SeleQ: 

 Papers, page 368, is already followed by the bed 

 farmers in Norfolk.f The latter h^s been fuccefs- 

 fully ufed for many years, by an honeft and in- 

 duftrious farmer (Mr. John Willy) of South- 

 Petherton in this county; and I cannot tooearneftly 

 recommend both. For certain I am, that whoever 

 Ihall carefully attend to them, in a favourable 

 feafon, will never alter their pra6lice, where pre- 

 judice does not prevail.;}; 



* Although this country is under great obligations to Mr. Tull, whofe 

 memory we honour, yet it is well known he carried his fcheme of Lorfe-hodng 

 too far. It was his hobby-horfe, and he rode it without the curb of reafon. 



■\ Our Secretary being laft fummer in Norfolk, made particular enquiry 

 refpefting this, and finds the pradlice is now totally difcontinuedj and this, 

 as the Rev. Mr. Close informs us, is the cafe in Suffolk alfo. 



X We cannot help wiftiing our very ingenious and valuable corrrefpondent 

 Mr. A. a little lefs fanguine in refpeft to the advantages of borfe-boeing tpr- 

 nips. His crop totally contradifls his tlieory. Turnips will not, by any 

 mode of culture, fuccced well on a poor clay foil. Such lands may be far 

 more advantageoufly cropped with article* where the horfe-hoe will be of 



much 



