82 O/Turneps. Chap. VIII. 



when they ftand long without it, they will be fo poor 

 and ftinted, that the Hand-hoe does not go deep 

 enough to recover them -, and 'tis feldom that thefe 

 rolled Turneps can be Hand-ho'd at the critical Time, 

 becaufe the Earth is then become fo hard, that the 

 Hoe cannot enter it without great Difficulty, unlefs it 

 be very moid ; and very often the Rain does not come 

 to foak it, until it. be too late ; but the driil'd Tur- 

 neps being in fingle Rows with Six-feet Intervals, 

 may be roll'd without Danger: For be the Ground 

 ever fo hard, the Hand-hoe will eafily fingle them 

 out, at the Price of Six-pence per Acre, or lefs (if 

 not in Harveft) ; and the Horfe-hoe will, in thofe wide 

 Intervals, plow at any Time, wet or dry; and, tho* 

 the Turneps mould have been neglected till ftinted, 

 will go deep enough to recover them to a flourifhing 

 Condition. 



Driil'd Turneps, by being no-where but in the 

 Rows (/), may be more eafily feen than thofe which 

 come up at Random ; and may therefore be fooner (g) 



(f) Driil'd Turneps coming all up nearly in a Mathematical 

 Line, 'tis very nearly that a Charlock, or other like Weed, comes 

 up in the fame Line amongft them, unlefs it be driil'd in with the 

 Turnep-feed, of which Weeds our Horfe-ho'd Seed never has 

 any ; there being no Charlock in the F.ows, nor any Turnep in 

 the Intervals : We know, that whatever comes up in the Interval 

 is not a Turnep, though fo like to it, that, at firil coming up, if 

 promifcuoufly, it cannot eafily be diitinguifhed by the Eye, until 

 after the Turneps, &c. attain the rough Leaf] and even then, 

 before they are of a considerable Bignefs, they are fo hard to be 

 diftinguifhed by thofe People, who are not well experienced, that 

 a Company of Hand-hoers cut out the Turneps by Miilake, and 

 left the Charlock for a Crop of a large Field of fown Turneps. 

 Such a Misfortune can never happen to driil'd Turneps, unlefs 

 wilfully done, be they fet out ever fo young. 



(g) The fooner they are made fingle, the better - 9 but yet, 

 when they are not very thick, they may Hand till we have the belt 

 Convenience of fingling them without much Damage ; but, when 

 they come up extraordinary thick, 'twill be much more difficult 

 to make them fingle, if they are neglected at their very firll coining 

 into rough Leaf. 



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