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proportion of eight to one bullock -, be* 

 fides the infinite advantage which this 

 fyftem of agriculture is of to the land, 

 by cleaning, meliorating, and preparing 

 it for other fucceeding crops, which is 

 an objecfl very much beyond the former 

 in point of real profit. For it is evident 

 beyond contradidlion, that almoft all the 

 Norfolk eftates have been improved, in 

 the proportion of forty per cent, at leaft, 

 merely by marling, and this method of 

 raifing turnips -, and many thoufands of 

 acres which before grew nothing but 

 furze, ling, broom, and fern, now pro- 

 duce fine crops of corn, and turnips, and 

 fupport a prodigious number of fheep, 

 and other cattle. 



The white-rloaf, or cream-coloured, 

 turnips, are generally efteemed the befl 

 fort, and next to them the purple. 



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