Chap. VIII. O/Turneps. 89 



The greateft Inconvenience, which has been ob- 

 ferv'd in the Turnep-hufbandry, is, when they are fed 

 off late in the Spring (which is in many Places the 

 greateft Ufe of them), there is not time to bring the 

 Land in Tilth for Barley ; the Lofs of which Crop 

 is fometimes more than the Gain of the Turneps : 

 This is intirely remedied by the drilling Method ; 

 for, by that, the Land may be almoft as well till'd 

 before the Turneps are eaten, or taken off, as it can 

 afterwards. 



If Turneps be fown in June, or the Beginning of 

 July^ the moft experienced Turnep-Farmers will have 

 ho more than Thirty to a fquare Perch left in Hand- 

 hoeing; and find that when more are left, the Crop 

 will be lefs ; but, in drilling the Rows at Six Feec 

 Intervals, there may be Sixty to a Perch -, and the 

 Horfe-hoe, by breaking fo much more Earth than 

 the Hand-hoe does, can nourifh Sixty drill'd, as well 

 as Thirty are by the fowing Method, which has been 

 made appear upon Trial ; but, I think, about Forty 

 or Forty-five better than Sixty on a Perch ; and the 

 Number of Plants fhould always be proportion'd to 

 the natural and artificial Pafture which is to maintain 

 them-, and fixty Turneps on a fquare Perch, at Five 

 Pounds each (which is but a Third of the Weight of 

 the large Size of Sheep-Turneps), make a Crop of 

 above Eighty Quarters to an Acre (y). 



When 



(y) I have had Turneps upon poor undung'd Land, that weighed 

 Fourteen Pounds a-picce; but thefe were only fuch as had more 

 Ps-oom than the reft. I have feen a whole Waggon-load of 

 drill'd Turneps fpread on the Ground, wherein I believe one 

 £ould not have found one chat weighed fo little as fix Pounds ; or 

 if the Rows had been fearchfid before they had been pull'd up, 

 they would have weighed Seven or Eight Pounds apiece one with 

 another ; we weighed fome of them that were Thirteen, fome 

 Fourteen Pounds each, and yet they Hood pretty thick : There 

 might be, as I guefs, about Fifty on a fquare Perch ; but this 

 Crop was on fandy Land, not poor ; and was dung'd the Third 



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