Chap. VIII. O/Turneps. 85 



Earth from the Turneps, leaving only juft enough 

 to keep them alive ; and on this Ridge drilPd my 

 Crop of Wheat (k) 7 and towards the Spring pull'd 

 up my Turneps, and carried them off for Cattle. 



When Turneps are planted too late, to have Time 

 and Sun for attaining to their full Bulk, fome drill a 

 double Row on each Six-feet Ridge, with a Parti- 

 tion of Fourteen Inches ; but I am told, that in this 

 double Row the Turneps do not, even at that late 

 Seafon, grow lb large, as thofe planted at the fame 

 time in fingle Rows; tho' the double Row requires 



neps, which come up in the Partitions of Treble Rows of ray 

 Ridges of Horfe-hoed Barley, grew fo vigoroufly as to overcome 

 the Barley. And this was demonltrated at Harveft in a long Field, 

 one Side of which had borne Turnep feed, and the drilled Ridges 

 of Barley croffmg the Middle of it; and both Ends of the Field 

 having Barley foA'n on the Level, one End of every Ridge crofs'd 

 the Tumep-feed Part of the Field for about Ten Perches of their 

 Length. 



I obferved alfo, that the Turneps near the Edges of the Lands 

 of fovvn Barley, adjoining to the hoed Intervals, grew large, but 

 not fo large as thofe in the Partitions on the Ridges, their Inter- 

 vals being hoed on each Side of them. 



But different from this have I feen mattered Tumep-feed com- 

 ing up in the like Partitions of drilled Wheat, on the very fame 

 Sort of Land, fo miferably poor and {tinted, that they fcarce 

 grew a Hand's Breadth high, when thofe Turneps which the Hoe 

 left in the Sides of the Intervals, and at the narrow Edges of the 

 unhoed Earth of the Interval Sides of the Rows of Wheat, grew 

 large; and the Wheat was good aifo : But I do not remember 

 how the middle Row of it fucceeded, 



This iaft Experience of the Turneps among the Wheat was got 

 by this Accident ; The Wheat was drilled after drilled Turneps 

 on Ridges of a different Size. The Turneps were all pulled up 

 before the Ground was plowed for the Wheat; but as Tumep- 

 feed never comes all up the firft Year, enough remained of this 

 to come up [though thinly) in the Wheat, to fhew exactly where 

 every Row had been drilled ; whereupon the Obfervation was 

 made. 



(k) This Wheat, being thus drili'd on the new Ridges made in 

 the Intervals, betwixt the Rows of Turneps, being well Horfe- 

 ho'd in the Spring, prov'd a very good Crop; it was driil'd in 

 treble Rows, the Partitions Seven Inches each. 



G 3 double 



