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I muft now remark (with the grcatefl deference 

 to the judgment of the Committee) that the turnip 

 oas an abundance of very fmall lateral fibrous rootSy 

 which run fo far in fearch of food, and feed as ra- 

 venoufly where they can penetrate, as thofe of al- 

 moft any other vegetable, and the plant certainly 

 derives more nourifliment from thofe than from its 

 tap-root.* Thofe fine fibrous roots, almoft im- 

 perceptible to the eye, ilTue chiefly from the apple 

 or body of the turnip, and get into the richeft part 

 of the foil, near the furface, and will bring the 

 plants to a confiderable magnitude in heavy lands, 

 adapted to beans, when mellowed by the horfe-hoe. 

 1 have this year had them ten and twelve pounds a 

 piece, from the firfl: fowing, (the i6th of June) 

 which is furcly a profitable fize: and could I raife 

 only two turnips of ten pounds each on every 

 fquare-yard, it would yield a crop of forty-three 

 tons an acre. 



I muft alfo inform you, that in the fame field 

 where my beans ftood, I have now wheat very 

 promifing; and when my turnips and cabbages are 

 off, I have no doubt, but by the affiftance of my 

 friendly horfe-hoes, I fhall bring the wheat crop to 

 as good maturity at harveft, as any in the country. 



• This is not the cafe with thofe kinds of turnips which grow chiefly 

 above ground, and which are generally the beft crops, and moft capable of 

 refifting frofts. 



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