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rolled with a wooden roller; on the nth, 

 i ath, and i3th of June, it was fowed with 

 about one pound and a quarter of feeds to the 

 Englifh acre. When the turnips were in four 

 leaves there appeared more fern and potatoes 

 than turnips, which were weeded out by hand, 

 at a great expenfe; and in about three weeks 

 after, when the turnips began to bottom, they 

 got a fecond weeding as before, after which 

 they were again thinned by hand; thefe differ 

 rent operations were continued till the turnips 

 were about a pound weight, and then they 

 were thinned again, and weeded as often as 

 there was occafion, and now it is imagined 

 they are as great a crop as any in the kingdom, 

 fome thoufands weighing fourteen pounds per 

 turnip. Part of the fame field is fowed in. 

 drills, thinned and weeded as the other, but 

 they are not equal to the broad caft, but are a 

 very good crop. Another part of the fame, 

 field is planted with 20,300 cabbages of diffe- 

 rent kinds, namely, the flat Dutch, borecole, 

 large late Dutch cabbage, turnip-cabbage, and 

 large Scotch cabbage, at three feet between each 

 drill, and two feet in the rows, which is at 

 lead one foot too near in the drills, and half a 

 foot in the rows, as they now touch one another 

 this 1 3th of October. All the faid cabbages 

 and turnips were cultivated with the plough, 

 and the cabbages hoed with the garden hoes, 

 and manured moftly with rotten dung; part 

 with horfe-dung, not half rotten, from the 

 liable; part with cow-dung, not rotten; part 

 with fea-flob and lime mixed; all which ma- 

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