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It gives me pleafure to find by your letter, that 

 hand-hoeing turnips increafes in this county and in 

 Wilts. I confidcr that as our greateft improve- 

 ment of late in Agriculture : but to drill them in 

 rows, then to hand-hoe and thin them, and after- 

 wards to horfe-hoe the intermediate fpaces, I look 

 upon to be. the perfedion of the turnip hufbandry. 



The horfe-hoe, by pulverizing the foil, gives an 

 inexhauftible plenty of pafture to the plants, when 

 the alleys are left fufficiently wide, and the ground 

 is in good heart. I allude to clays, loams, and 

 llone rulh, with which only I have been concerned, 



Wifliing the Society may perfeft the good work 

 they have begun, I remain, Sir, &c. 



R. PROCTER ANDERDON. 



N. B. The obfervations on the preceding letter 

 made by the Committee, having been fent to Mr. 

 Anderdon previous to their being printed, he ob- 

 ligingly returned the following anfwcr: — 



much greater fervice:— And on good free turnip land, it is certainly im- 

 proj>er, as much ground muft be loft to admit it. The horfe-hoe is adapted 

 to plants that want earthing up, or that have lateral fibrous roots; which 

 is not fo much the cafe with turnips, as with cabbages. Turnips derive no 

 other advantage from it than they would from hand-hoeing, which would 

 fufficiently deftroy weeds, and admit of a far greater weight of turnips 

 per acre. 



Sir, 



