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turneps, which feldom reach more than (zYCii 

 or eight inches in diameter, it is ruinous arid 

 abfurd to continue the prafticc. 



But the prcfcnt price of hoeing was likewife 

 eftabliflicd when large turneps were grown, 

 and when wide hoeing might, perhaps, be pro- 

 per; and a workman cannot, at the prefent 

 low wages, afford to fet out the plants at a 

 Ihorter diftance ; for though, in either cafe, he 

 ftir the whole ground, yet the more plants he 

 has to fingle, the more tedious the operation 

 becomes. 



If the plants be fet out at eighteen inches — 

 each fquare yard contains four plants : but^ at 

 twelve inches, the fame fpace of ground con- 

 tains nine plants: fo that in this cafe the hoer 

 has more than twice the number of plants to 

 fingle and fet out. 



But does it not follow that the farmer has 

 more than twice the number of turneps to fat 

 Kis bullocks upon ? and is not this interefting 

 fad a fufficient inducement to farmers in ge- 

 neral to break through a cullom whofe original 

 foundation no longer cxifts, and to filence the 

 perfuafions of their men by an adequate ad- 

 vance of wages ? 



There 



