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is generally employed to fcare them. When 

 the plot has been fmall and near the houfe, I 

 have known a fimplc expedient ufed for this 

 intent with fuccefs. On a flender poft, riling in 

 the midft of the patch of feed, was fixed a 

 bell ; from which a line pafTed into the kitch- 

 en; in the mod frequented part of which hung 

 the pull. Wht)ever pafled the pull, rung the 

 bell ; fo that in a farm-houfe kitchen, where a 

 miftrefs and two or three maids were fome of 

 them almoft always on the foot, an inceflant 

 peal was kept up ; and the birds, having no 

 refpite from alarms, forfook their prey. 



2. Sale. It is not a pradtice among the 

 generality of farmers to raife turneps for falej 

 neverthelefs there are every year more or few- 

 er fold. Little farmers, who want conveniency 

 or fkill, and larger ones who want money to 

 lay in a proper flock, or who from the prices 

 of flock and turneps, comparatively, judge it 

 more eligible to fell than to *' graze," — fell 

 their turneps to thole who have judgment, 

 money, and fpirit to buy flock. 



Sale-turncps are ufually confumed on the 

 premifTes they grow upon. Sometimes the 

 tiiyer andfometimcs th^ feller draws the crops, 



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