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planted ones fo large as the refl, which is the cafe 

 with tap-rooted plants in general. I have generally 

 potatoes, cabbages, borecole, roota-baga, and tur- 

 nips, and endeavour to try and prove all things in 

 farming, that I read of in the Annals, or your ufeful 

 colleftlon, or any other book that is publifhed on the 

 fubjeft, which, of all others, I think of mofl: ufe to 

 mankind. My land is too fliff for carrots and parfnips, 

 which I regret, as I know that they are very nutri- 

 tious and keep well. 



Happy would it be for this Ifland, if all men in 

 power were patriots, and knew the great import- 

 ance of promoting and encouraging agriculture. 



If they would read the County Surveys, lately de- 

 livered to the Board of Agriculture, they would fee 

 that near one- fourth of Great-Britain is wafle and 

 almofl entirely barren, neither ploughed nor planted, 

 but full of bogs, brambles, heath, ling, and other 

 trafh, fo as to bane and injure more flock than the 

 value of the little herbage the commons produce. 

 Cuftom has given all the tenants (and in fome cafes 

 all the inhabitants) of adjoining manors a right of 

 turning their flock, promifcuoufly, on thefe com- 

 mons; and though a few acres of turnips inclofed 

 would do them more real fervice than fuch liberty 

 on 500 or even 5000 acres of common, fuch is the 

 perverfenefs of mankind, that the lord and tenants 

 have never, I think, been known to agree to inclofe 



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