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very wet, tlie cole is foinetimes allowed to (land 

 for feed, when 30 bufliels on an average is produ- 

 ced from the acre. This article varies very much 

 in price, from L. 18 to L. 35 per laft. 



Turnips are cultivated in confiderable quantities 

 on every farm under tillage. The land is generally 

 plowed four times ; the firll time, after harveft ; 

 the fecond time, in April ; the third time, in the 

 end of May, or the beginning of June ; and the 

 land being then manured, they begin lowing turnip 

 in the end of June, and finifh about the middle, or 

 end of July. The feed is always fovvn broadcaft, 

 and very foon after the turnips appear with the 

 rough leaf; they are handhoed, by way of thinning 

 them, which operation is repeated once, or oftener 

 in the courfe of the feafon, as occalion requires. 

 The turnip-crops are always eat off by flieep, and 

 principally by lambs ; though a great number of 

 wedders are fatted for home confumption, and for 

 the London market, particularly about Northamp- 

 ton, and the higher parts of the county. The fheep 

 are penned on the turnip-field in fquare folds, ac- 

 cording to the number, about 100 commonly on an 

 acre. Thefe pens, or hurdles, are made of the un- 

 derwood fold in the forefts •, they are made 2 yards 

 long, and coft about 6 d. each. 



Very few cattle are fatted on turnip here ; when 

 that is done, a few of the largefl turnips are drawn 

 from the field, and given to the cattle in the ftall. 

 They are alfo occafionally fed on hay, at leaft once 

 or twice a-day. An ordinary crop of turnip fells 

 at from L. 3 to L. 5 per acre, the price depending 

 greatly on the feafon, and on the price of wool. 



Potatoes are not cultivated here to any extent, 

 the quantity neceffary for the confumption of the in- 

 hxibitants being very trifling, and the diftance from 

 the London market too great, to allow the farmers 

 to fend them there with advantage. 



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