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(a) Sir Thomas Beevor remarks in this place, that the com- 

 plaint I here allude to, is not known in the part of Norfolk 

 where he refides, which I am glad to hear ; but, I am forry 

 to fay, that in all parts where I am moil familiar, it is other- 

 wife. Sir Thomas's obfervation is as follows: — t; Such com- 

 " plaint refpefting turnips is perfectly new, to the writer of 

 '* thefe remarks, around whom, the farmers in the hundreds 

 " of Humilyard, Henftead, and Depwade, commonly unrig 

 <: the four-courfc fhift of an alternate crop for man and bead, 

 " have felt no fuch milchief. This mode of hufbandry, there- 

 *f fore, cannot be too ftrongly recommended, as it will not 

 " only keep the land clean from weeds, enable the farmer to 

 <! keep a larger flock of cattle, (from which he raifes his ma- 

 "nure, thereby enfuring himfelf a greater produce of corn,) 

 " but, it is alfo advantageous, by dividing the work upon the 

 " farms into fuch portions, as require to be attended to, at 

 i: different periods of the year, whereby the buhnefs is car- 

 '•riedon with lefs hurry, as well as with fewer horfes and 

 " men." 



(5) Mr. Baillie obferves, " In this rotation, th.Gre is nothing 

 "to keep flock upon in fummer, efpccially Cheep." What 

 better feed can fheep have than vetches ? which would be on 

 one-feventh part of the farm, and might be eaten off the 

 whole of the fummer, bclklcs the feed of the clover, after 

 mowing it for hay. 





