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on. 4.This muft necellarily be done, if wheat has been fown in the 

 alleys between the rows of turneps. 



Turneps are always carried off the field, when they are intended 

 to fatten the larger fort of cattle. 



SECT. III. 



"Experiments oti Turneps cultivated accordiyig to the new Hii/bajidry,'. 



T N 1754, M. de Chateau-vieux fowed turneps on beds, in two- 

 •"■ rows. They fuffered greatly for want of rain, and none of them 

 grew to the fize they would have done in a more favourable feafon. 

 Some of them weighed eight pounds: but their general weight wa9' 

 three or four. 



' In 1755, M. de Chateau-vieux fowed fome beds with one row, 

 fbme with two, and others with three rows. They were afterwards 

 thinned fo that the plants were a foot afunder in the rows. Thofe 

 fown in one row were the largefl, and, in general, the moft equal. 

 Some of them weighed 14 pounds, and moll of them from 

 feven to eight. In the other rows, they did not weigh fo much; but 

 they were in great number. He had not, at the time of his com- 

 municating this, repeated his experiments often enough to determine: 

 what number of rows on each bed will yield the greateft crop. 



He makes the following calculation of the produce of an arpent, 

 fown in fmgle rows, and cultivated according to the new hufbandry 

 fuppofrng the turneps to weigh only.fix pounds each: which is very, 

 moderate. 



Let a furface of 36 fquare toifes, which is nearly the extent of an 

 arpent*, be formed into beds of four feet wide, which is fufficient for 

 one row of turneps. Thefe beds will be 216 feet long, and confe- 

 quently willcontain that number of turneps planted a foot afunder.. 

 Thofe 216 multiplied by 54, the number of beds, will give 1 1664 

 turneps for the produdl: of the arpent, which multiplied by fix, the 

 weight of each turnep, will give 69984 pounds for the weight of all i 

 the turneps on the arpent. This may be looked upon as a very 

 confiderable crop : and he has reafon to believe, that in a good year, , 

 it will be double what he has here calculated. 



In 1755, M. Duhamel fowed turneps in a field, on beds; They 



* And equal to almoft an acre and a quarter of our meafure... 



