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CULTURE OF COLE, OR RAPE-SEED. 



/\ S this plant is valuable in itfelf, 

 ^ -^ and may be often interwoven with 

 different forts of grain to very great ad- 

 vantage, by changing the fucceflion, 

 where the courfe of hufbandry is but 

 little varied ; I fhall, for the benefit of 

 fuch gentlemen as may be unacquainted 

 with its nature, defcribe the foil which 

 fuits it, the beft mode of cultivating it, 

 and its different ufes. 



Cole-feed requires good land -, and, if 

 it has been long in tillage, a loamy or 

 mixt foil does beft. Very ftiff clay is 

 not fuitable to it, and thin-fkinned poor 

 land is wholly inappofite ; but fen-land, 

 marfh-land, and almofl any old pafture, 

 generally produces great crops of it -, and 

 it often fucceeds well upon fuch newly 



cultivated 



