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vest through, earning more at it than by other 

 field-work. But in counties where hoers are scarce, 

 a farmer should always consider his turnip crops 

 when he agrees with his harvest-men, and hire a 

 sufficiency to set them to hoeing as regularly, when 

 the turnips want it, as to reaping when the wheat 

 is ready. 



Look well to your drilled crops : both the horse 

 and hand-hoeings must be given whenever weeds 

 arise, or the land seems to be growing adhesive. 



WHEAT AMONGST TURNIPS. 

 Mr. Walker, a considerable farmer at Harpley, 

 in Norfolk, invented and executed on a large scale, 

 one of the most singular practices that I have met 

 with that of hoeing in wheat-seed at the second 

 hoeing of his turnips on sand land. The wheat 

 got up well, and was not damaged by the sheep 

 feeding the turnips, but, on the contrary, if fed in 

 a dry season, and not too late, improved : by this 

 method he got crops of three-quarters an acre, 

 without the expence of a shilling in tillage. I viewed 

 some of them with much pleasure. A singular idea, 

 that may be applicable with great profit on certain 

 soils and in certain cases. He practised it so ex- 

 tensively, as to lessen the number of his horses in 

 consequence of it. 



CABBAGES. 



The beginning of this month, the second horse- 

 hoeing should be given to the Midsummer planted 



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