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fagopyrum. I have likewife {tzv\ it termed beech- 

 wheat in an Englifh treatife on hufbandry, written 

 in the reign of Henry VIII, 



I rely upon the candour of the Society to excufe 

 inaccuracies, and fuch remarks as may feem fo- 

 reign and unimportant. If any of my obfervations 

 ihould be thought to merit confideration, it will be 

 matter of abundant gratification to 



Your moft obedient fervant, 



NEHEMIAH BARTLEY, 



Brifiol, Feb. 8, 1785. 



Article XXXVII. 



On the Neceffity of Hoeing Turnips. 



Addrejjed to the Farmers in the IVeji of England. 



[By Arthur Young, cfq.] 



NOTHING founds fo wonderful to Eaft- 

 country farmers as hearing of the condud: 

 of their brethren in the Wc(i, who do not hoe 

 their turnip crops. Long and univerfal pradice 

 has given the Eaft-country farmer the mod com- 

 plete convidion, not of the propriety only, but of 

 the abfolutc ncceflity of this operation. 



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