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hufbandry confifls of many circumftances. I 

 fhall begin with 



TURNIP S, 



Which Lord Shannon has cultivated upon a 

 very large fcale, as will appear from the fol- 

 lowing particulars. His father began the cul- 

 ture many years ago, which he continued till 

 1770, and then went largely into it. He had 

 every year, from 1770 to 1774 both inclufive, 

 lixteen acres, and in 1775, twenty-four. Has 

 cultivated them in both broad caft and the drill 

 method the rows at three feet j but finding 

 that the roots became too large, altered his 

 method to eighteen inches, in order to have 

 more of them j the lize will be feen by the fol- 

 lowing account. 



Caftkmart} V, December 2 1 ft, 1771. 



I this day meafured a fquare perch of tur- 

 nips, i64- feet, drilled in rows three feet apart* 

 there were 84 turnips on this perch, they weigh- 

 ed 7 cwt. 2 qrs. which I compute to be 60 tuns 

 to the Engliih acre ; and there were vacant fpa- 

 ces in the rows within this perch where the 

 turnips had failed, that would have held at leaft 

 ten large turnips more. I then pulled 84 tur- 

 nips, the largeft I could fee, within about fif- 

 teen yards of the above perch, and they weighed 

 15 cwt. i5qrs. i7lb. which is about 125 ton, 

 29 cwt. 2olb. I weighed two of the above 

 turnips feparately, one of them a white tan- 

 kard, they each weighed 32lb. The white 



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