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the lime and dung. In the fpiing I have them dug deep 

 and well, the workman dropping potatoe fets, and covering 

 them as he goes on. The crop more than pays the expence 

 of digging, and leaves the land clean and finely pulverized. 



*< I think equidiftant rows of twelve inches too wide for 

 barley; having tried various experiments from three to 

 twelve inches with that grain, from'the general refult, I 

 prefer feven inches to every other diftance. I wifh, for 

 the benefit of your Society, and' the nation at large, you 

 had many fuch correfpondents as Mr. Wimpey. 



« H. J. CLOSE.'* 



Article XXV- 



On Raifmgt Planting, mid Cultivating the Tttrnip- 

 rooted Cabbage ; on the Six-Field Syjlemi and fome 

 curfory Remarks on Agriculture. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 



THE beft method I have yet difcovered to raife 

 the plants of the turnip-rooted cabbage, is 

 to breaft-plough, and turn as much old pafturc as 

 may be judged neccflary for the feed-bed; two 

 perch well flocked with plants, will be fufficicnt 

 to plant an acre.* The land fliould be dug as 



• See Sir Thomas Beevor's letter, page no. 



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