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44 befides this field, two others fown in the 

 41 fame way, amounting in all to about 

 44 twelve acres. Thefe turnips were horfe- 

 <c hoed upon the 171}} of Auguft, for the firft 

 44 time, by taking off, at one furrow of the 

 4t plough, only one fide of each ridge, clofe 

 " to the plants ; thus they remained till the 

 " 25th, when I run the plough in the fame 

 44 furrow ; by which, with the firft furrow, 

 * 4 I ploughed about twenty-one inches deep. 

 44 This being finifhed, I immediately returned 

 4 the earth back to the plants ; this afforded 

 44 them frefh nourishment ; and, in order to 

 4< give rheir roots time to penetrate this frefh 

 44 earth (which by the horfehoeing was be- 

 44 come very fine mould), I let them remain 

 46 in this ftate till the I2th of September, 

 44 when I horfehoed them again, by taking off 

 44 the other fide of every ridge, and on the 

 t4 2oth deepened the furrow in the fame man- 

 44 ner as the former, and immediately returned 

 44 back the mould to the plants, and on the 

 44 1 8th of October threw up a fmall furrow 

 46 on each fide of every ridge, which finifhed 

 4 the culture of thefe crops, and reftored the 

 * 4 ridges to the form in which they were 

 4< when the plants were put out upon them." 

 This is his defcription of horfehoeing the 

 cabbages he had planted in the fame field ; 

 and he refers to that account for the turnips, 

 which, he fays, were horfehoed in the fame 

 manner, and nearly at the fame times, as 



thefe 



