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the crop would have been much better, and the 1 6, 



foil left cleaner. WELD. 



I apprehend there is no occafion to leave the 

 plants fo thick upon the ground as is ufually 

 clone. lam perfuaded that fix or eight inch hoes 

 might be ufed with propriety in fetting out the 

 plants. If fo, the expence of hoeing would be 

 little more than that of hoeing turneps, 



I am of opinion, from this experiment, as 

 well as from others that I find have been tried 

 in the county, that weld may be railed with 

 confiderable profit in Norfolk ; efpecially at 

 prefent (during the war), when weld is dear ; 

 but I am at the fame time clearly of opinion, 

 that it is not the intereft of landlords to encou- 

 rage the culture of it, without fome rigid re- 

 ftridtions in their leafes to prevent their tenants 

 from carrying off their eftates fuch a quantity 

 -of vegetable matter, without replacing it with 

 an equivalency of manure, agreeably to theufual 

 covenant relative to hay and ftraw : for it is 

 not the corn only, but the ftraw likewife, that 

 is carried off the premifes in the fliape of weld : 

 perhaps to the amount of a ton or upwards an 

 acre. 



AUGUST 29. Laft autumn, in order to afcer- SHEEP. 

 tain the proper time of put ting ewes to the ram, I 

 made the following experiment : 



