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SECTION VI. 

 TJie regular Proceedings on the Farm, 



HAVING left orders, and men proper to 

 do what was necessary, to plough and hoe 

 the corn, harrow the potatoes, &c. at my 

 return we began to prepare a piece of land 

 for turnips, which we did in a very correct 

 manner, by mowing the weeds first ; which 

 may stagger the reader : but the weeds 

 kept the sun from the land, and the soil is 

 of so loose and light a nature that it is soon 

 pulverised. Having some compost, which 

 was of more than a year's standing, a 

 most beautiful crop I raised ; and as I had 

 (experienced so much value in the plaster of 

 Paris the year before, when the turnips got 

 into three leaves I applied some plaster 

 diamondwise in squares, to see the effects 

 pf it, so as not to be partial to either the 



