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have a crop of wheat every year upon the 

 fame land, to much greater profit than any 

 courfe of crops in the Old Hufbandry, as we 

 have (hewn above. If the land is not very 

 flrong, inftead of beans, the farmer may raife 

 a crop of carroty or potatoes after the wheat, 

 and thus have wheat and potatoes, or wheat 

 and carrots, alternately. 



Having (hewn that wheat and beans are 

 cultivated to greater profit in the New than 

 in the Old Hufbandry, I (hall proceed to fome 

 other crops, and prove the advantage of hoe- 

 ing, by a fair comparifon of both at large, 

 We have an example of this in the culture of 

 turnips by Mr. Wynn Baker, near Dublin, 

 which, in his report to the Dublin Society, he 

 relates as follows. He prepared land for fe- 

 veral different crops, whereof part was tur- 

 nips ; this was five times ploughed, and laid 

 in five-feet ridges. Compoft was laid in the 

 furrows between the ridges, which were at 

 the lafl ploughing turned back upon the com- 

 poff , and a fingle row of turnip-feed was dril? 

 led upon the middle of each ridge over the 

 manure. Half an acre was ploughed fix 

 .times, drefled with the fame compoft as the 

 ridges (but with double the proportion that 

 was given to the land in ridges), and he fowed 

 it with turnip-feed, broad caft; at the fame 

 time the ridges were drilled, viz. the i4th of 



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