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The principal point in determining this queftion 

 feems to me to be this : if the crop of beans drilled 

 as above, after deducing the feed, and fome ad- 

 ditional expence in taking the crop off the ground 

 without injuring the turnips, can be, one year with 

 another, fuppofed to be as valuable as the quantity 

 of turnips that might reafonably be expefted in the 

 broadcaft method more than in the other, I Ihould 

 not hefitate to declare my humble opinion in favour 

 of drilling between the beans. 



A very few experiments, carefully made, would, 

 I apprehend, be fufficient to fettle this point, and 

 the value of a few fuch crops of beans would be eafily 

 found; but from hence there feems to arife another 

 queftion. What are turnips worth per ton? 



In anfwer to this, fome of your ingenious cor- 

 refpondents have informed us, that a fheep of 

 twenty pounds a quarter will eat twenty pounds of 

 turnips in twenty-four hours. According to this 

 calculation, a ton of turnips will keep one flieep of 

 that fize 112 days, or fixtecn weeks, which at 

 four-pence per week only is five fliillings and four- 

 pence; at which price I imagine they may be fairly 

 valued, after deducting the reafonable expence of 

 drawing and carting them into another field, with- 

 out doing which they arc not nearly fo valuable. 



Though 



