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of course he has not the manure for the next year. In 

 the next place, you may grow three times the, weight 

 of turnips on an acre, with the same manure, that you can of 

 potatoes. 



I think that any of you who saw my turnip fields 

 last year, will bear witness, that I could not have got 

 one-third part of the weight of potatoes off the same 

 land. Eemember it was the poorest and most worn-out 

 part of the farm — ^judge for yourselves if I could have 

 kept the same number of cows through the winter, if I 

 had planted the same land with potatoes, and even had 

 a good crop of them. By sowing turnips, I have first a 

 good profit from the cows (some of them made as much 

 as £3 a-head profit). Then just see what a heap of 

 manure I got, and all ready on the spot. Calculate for 

 yourselves what it Avould have cost me to buy that quan- 

 tity of manure, and then tell me if my turnips have 

 paid me. 



Nor did it cost me so much to manure those turnips 

 as some of you suppose. The manure cost me just £3 

 an acre. But if I had sown the same fields with potatoes, 

 I must have sown forty-eight weights to the acre — the 

 price of which at 5|d. a weight, which I suppose is about 

 what they should be worth in April, would be £1 : 2s. 

 Now the turnip -seed only cost about 2s. per acre, so 

 that I saved £1 in the seed, which, taken from the £3 

 for manure, leaves only £2 for the cost of my turnips 

 per acre ; because I consider the expense of thinning 

 and weeding them, about equal to the expense of earth- 

 ing the potatoes. Kecollect, that you often put £3 or 

 £4 worth or even more oar-weed on an acre of potatoes, 

 and tell me, if even where a man has to buy manure 

 for his turnips as I did, it is not a cheaper crop to him 



