MINUTES FEE, 



brought on a fermentation, and have fpoilcd 



the whole de P flt - 



Might not this practice be extended to the 



prefer vat ion of turneps in the fpring? 



Turneps, this yearj began to run the be- 

 ginning of January : they have now, in ge- 

 neral, got fpring fhoots five or fix inches 

 long , and, if the prefent open weather con- 

 tinue, the roots muflbe confiderably exhaufled^ 

 and the land very much drawn, long before 

 bullocks in general are finifhed, or grafs be- 

 gins to grow. But if they were now (when 

 labour is cheap and plentiful) topped and 

 carted into dry ditches, or formed into flacks 

 with ftraw *, their goodnefs might be pre- 

 ferved, and the land be got into forwardnefs 

 for barley. 



If they were Hacked in dr near the yard^ 

 there would not, for fhed or ftraw-yard bul- 

 locks, be any labour loft. 



Whether, after this remarkably mild win- 

 ter, the fpring prove very mild, or very fe- 

 Vere, they would, by this means, be removed 

 but of harm's way. 



61. 



THE ASH. FEBRUARY 7. There is, in a grove at Gun- 



ton, a large afh, Cat leaft a load of timber in 



* Perhaps hurdles, fet chequer-wife, would be found 

 convenient receptacles. 



it) 



