MINUTES AUG, 



16. l6. 



AUGUST 29. Laft year, to try whether 

 weld (Refeda luteola- dyer's weed) be an 

 object of the Norfolk culture, I fowed one 

 acre and three-eighths with two pints of tur- 

 pep-ieed, and two pints and a half of weldr 

 feed, the i6th of Auguft. 



The foil, a lightifh fandy loam, had been 

 plowed three times as a fallow for wheat ; 

 gave a fourth plowing ; harrowed ; fowed 

 the turnep-feed ; harrowed ; fowed the weld- 

 feed ; re-harrowed, the horfes trotting. 



Jt was hoed at a confiderable expence with 

 {mall carrpt hoes ; it neverthelefs got full of 

 poppies and other weeds. 



On one end of the piece, where the turneps 

 were a bad crop, the we^d was very good ; 

 but, upon the whole, only indifferent. 



I am certain that in this experiment the 

 turneps were extremely prejudicial to the weld; 

 and there wasnofeed from them worth turning 

 the Iheep to, until the plants began to run, in 

 the faring; and then, in a few days, they darted 

 up, and drew the weld up with them, flender 

 and fickly. I am very clear in that, had the 

 weld been fown alone, and been twice hoed, 



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