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unfavourable to the beans, and that the produce 

 per acre in the common hufbandry was not, on an 

 average, in this neighbourhood, equal to a third 

 part of the above quantity. From the beft intel- 

 ligence I have been able to obtain, one of thefe 

 crops of turnips was confiderably better than Mr. 

 Bult's ; they were fown in a field of nine computed 

 acres on the loth of June, after the fecond horfe- 

 hoeing; but whether the fecond hoeing was per- 

 formed too foon, the ground not clean, or whatever 

 elfe might be the caufe, the beans were weeded by 

 hand twice afterwards, and I fuppofc the turnips 

 were fomewhat benefited by it. A very intelligent 

 farmer, who went to fee the crop, who has lately 

 done a little in the drill hufbandry, and on whofe 

 veracity I can depend, has affured me that this was 

 the beft crop of turnips he ever beheld. 



The turnip-feed in the other crop was put in by 

 a hand-drill between the rows of beans; but the 

 farmer being unufed to a drill of that kind, the 

 work was badly performed, the turnips being in 

 fome places vaftly too thick, and altogether as 

 much too thin in others; the farmer has told me 

 himfelf, that where they happened to be of a pro- 

 'per fize of thicknefs, it was one of the moft pro- 

 fitable crops he ever had. This was on a very wet, 

 heavy foil, not very favourable for turnips. 



Though 



