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After that I fliall avail myfelf of the good tillage 

 of my ground, and drill winter vetches, aflliring 

 myfelf (from my experience of this year in another 

 field) of a good crop, if the next winter fliould not 

 be very unfavourable. The following fummer 

 [1787] if I live, after a good drejfing, I intend to drill 

 turnips all over the field, in rows three feet afunder.* 

 The next year [1788 J to drill beans in the fpring; 

 turnips between them at Midfummer; and wheat 

 where the beans flood at Michaelmas. 



Do not therefore difcourage me from riding v.hat 



I perceive you are inclined to call my hobby-horfe. 



I promife you I will not ride him unreafonably. He 



is a good thing, very tradtable, goes very fure, and 



has done his bufmefs well for more than twenty years 



pad — now and then a fmall trip, or falfe flep, may 



happen; but it is commonly the fault of the rider, 



not of the hobby-horfe, or horfe-hoe. 

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But to be more ferious. Making laft fummer 

 only two loads of hay from eleven acres of my bcft 

 meadow, and making in the whole but a fmall por- 

 tion, I was from neceflity obliged to turn my mind 

 to a fupply for the fpring, which induced me to 

 fow turnips wherever I could; and in one field I 

 drilled a fingle row between my drilled wheat on 



• Drilling »hem only two feet afunder is, perhaps, preferable. 



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