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Though here is no experiment fairly and accu- 

 rately made, or properly related, I think the fol- 

 lowing concliifions may be juftly drawn from the 

 above fads : 



17?. That with refpedl to beans in particular, the 

 drilling and horfe-hoeing is vaftly fuperior to the 

 common mode of hufbandry.* 



idly. That the beans are undoubtedly a good 

 prefervative of the turnips from the depredations 

 of the fly.f And, 



^dly. That as by this method no crop is loft, 

 and confequently no rent, and but a mere trifle of 

 expence (if any) chargeable to the turnip crop, 

 it muft be one of the moft profitable, as well as 

 the moft certain method of propagating that ufeful 

 root ever yet pradifed. 



I might have procured fome other inftances of 

 the advantages attending this method the laft fea- 

 fon on fome fmallcr fcales; but they would only- 

 have tended to corroborate the above conclufion re- 

 fpeding the fly, which I prefume will obtain credit 

 without further proofs, and induce fome of your in- 



• Of tliis there cannot be a doubt. 



•f This we much wiHi to fee fully proved by decifive experiments 

 made iu dilFerent parts of turnip fields. 



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