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fix years, 40 new houfes, many of them hand- 

 fome ones of flone and (late. For cabbins, 

 barns, 6cc. he gives timber for the roofs. 



In 1751, Mr. Bolton being in England, 

 where observing the cultivation of turnips for 

 fheep, he introduced them on his eftate on 

 his return, and had hurdles made for penning 

 fheep on them, and did it with much fuccefs ; 

 after the fame journey alfo, he introduced horfe- 

 beans for feeding his horfes, mixed with oats : 

 he did it for twenty years together, and with 

 the greateft fuccefs. Turnip cabbage he has 

 tried alfo for fheep, and found them to do 

 exceedingly well. One turnip cabbage fown 

 the beginning of April, and not tranfplanted, 

 weighed i3lb. top and bottom. An experi- 

 ment on carrots I viewed, of which Mr. BoL- 

 ton, junior, has fmce favoured me with the 

 following account. 



<c When you were here, 1 (hewed you a few 

 beds of carrots, which were pulled the begin- 

 ning of this month j I meafured the ground, 

 and when the carrots were cleaned and topped, 

 I faw them weighed. The ground meafureci 

 fifteen perches, plantation meafure, which 

 produced 36 hundred and fix ftone of carrots, 

 befides allowing 4lb. to every hundred for dirt, 

 though they were very clean and dry. The 

 produce is 156 barrels, and 16 ftones to an 

 acre, (20 flones to the barrel) and beyond any 

 thing 1 could have imagined j and I am cer- 

 tain, had the carrots been hoed and thinned 



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