MINUTES 



FEB. 



SOWING 

 IURNEPS. 



why he did not give his land another earth be- 

 fore he fowed it. He anfwered, that the land 

 was not foul; and that he, purpofely, let the 

 feed-weeds get to a head : having found, from 

 the experience of two or three years back, 

 that his turneps fucceeded beft when the feed 

 was fown in that manner : faying, that he be- 

 lieved the " wreck" lhaded the young plants, 

 and kept the fly from them. I afked him if 

 the rubbifh was not in the way of the hoe : he 

 faid, not much j for being young, and ten- 

 der, it withers away to little or nothing, be- 

 fore the plants be fit for the hoe. 



Two or three days ago, I examined this clofe 

 of turneps ; the plants are thinner than one 

 would wifli, (perhaps owing to their being bad- 

 ly hoed) but there is not a " filially patch" in 

 the whole piece. 



There may be two advantages arifing from 

 letting the foil lie fome time before the laft 

 plowing r it acquires a degree of texture, and 

 moiftnefs, favourable to the infant plants ; 

 and is prevented, by the dead weeds, from 

 being, afterwards, run together by heavy rains. 



CATTLE AT 



72. 



EEBRUARY 10. Afking Mr. A. Bayfield, if 

 his cattle were not fometimes ehoaked wkh 



turneps ; 



