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together, in Romford market, for the sum of 50 pounds; 

 yielding in twenty two weeks, a profit of 16 pounds, 

 which is equal to 7s. 3d. per week, for each bullock. 



These two bullocks were tied up twelve weeks each, 

 in which time they ate eight tons, two hundred weight 

 of beet root, the produce of only one sixth part of an 

 acre of land, cultivated according to the method re- 

 commended in the following chapter. 



The method used in the cultivation of the improved Beet 

 Rootf upon strong land^ at Bedfords* 



It may be proper, in the first place, to state what is 

 meant by strong land. The surface soil is loamy, and 

 from four to twelve inches deep, upon a bed of strong 

 clay mixed with gravel. It is too heavy, and general- 

 ly too wet, in the winter, even for sheep to eat a crop 

 of turnips on the ground ; and although good turnips 

 are grown upon it, it is always necessary to draw them 

 for the sheep, stall-fed cattle, or for cattle in the yards. 

 The ground is prepared to receive the seed, and clean- 

 ed in the same way as it would have been for Swedish 

 turnips. As that part of the business is so well known 

 to all farmers, it is not necessary to enter into any de- 

 tail upon it. 



In the middle, or latter end of the month of April, 

 the furrows are set out with the plough, two feet apart, 

 and double ploughed; that is, the plough returns on 

 the furrow to the point whence it set out, forming a 

 ridge between each furrow. 



Double ploughing with a common plough is prefer- 

 red to single ploughing with a double mould board 



