S8 Of Turn eps. Chap.VIIL 



plowing the other; or, if the Row is not thrown 

 down, it may be too much dry'd in hot Weather, by 

 the Two Furrows lying too long open : Yet, when 

 the Turneps are large before Hoeing, we need not 

 fear either of thefe Dangers in giving them a whole 

 Hoeing; as I have found by Experience, even when 

 there has been left on each Side of the Row only 

 about Three Inches Breadth of Earth; tho' it is not 

 bell to fuffer it to lie long open (u). 



Dry Weather does not injure Turneps when Horfe- 

 ho'd, as it does fown Turneps ; the Hand-hoe does 

 not go deep enough to keep the Earth moift, and 

 fecure the Plants againft the Drought ; and that is 

 the belt Seafon for Horfe-hoeing, which always can 

 keep the Roots moift (x). 



Dung and Tillage together will attain the necefTary 

 Pegreeof Pulveration, in lefs time than Plowing can 

 go alone : Therefore Dung is more ufeful for Tur- 

 neps, becaufe they have commonly lefs time to grow 

 than other Plants. 



Turneps of Nineteen Pounds Weight I have feve- 

 ral Times heard of, and of Sixteen Pounds Weight 

 often known ; and Twelve Pounds may be reckon'd 

 the middle Size of great Turneps : And I can fee no 

 Reafon, why every Turnep mould not arrive to the 

 full Bignefs of its Species, if it did not want Part of 

 its due Nourifhment. 



(u) But, if the Weather prove wet, we always fuffer thofe 

 Furrows to lie open, until the Earth be dry enough to be turn'd 

 back again to the Row, without fmearing or flicking together ; 

 unlefs fuch Weather continue fo long that the Weeds begin to 

 come up, and then we throw back the Furrows to ftifle the Weeds, 

 before they grow large, tho' the Earth be wet. 



(x) But if forne Sorts of Earth have Iain lo long unmoved as 

 to become very hard before the firit Hoeing, the Hoe, going very 

 pear to the Rows on each Side, may cauie fuch hard Earth where- 

 on the Rows (land, to crack and open enough to let in the 

 Drought (i. e. the Sun and Air) to the Roots in very dry Weather. 

 In this Cafe 'tis bell to Horfe-hoe alternately, as is directed in 

 fage 86. 



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