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and tends the cattle ; for which fometimes the 

 one and fometimes the other finds draw. 



The medium price of amiddlingcropof tur- 

 nepsisabout50J. auacre; but the price isfubjedt 

 to great and fudden fluduations ; as will appear 

 in MiN. 6S. 



3. Consumption. This is the grand pur- 

 ppfe for which the turnep-crop is principally 

 Gukivated. 



Turneps are almoft univerfally " pulled y 

 that is, drawn up by the roots. The pradlice of 

 hurdling them off with iheep, as they fland^ 

 the almofi only pradtlce of other countries, is 

 not in ufe in Norfolk. I do not recollei^ to 

 have obferved one inftance of this pra(5lice, un- 

 lefs when the turneps were very fmall, or very 

 thin. 



But the Norfolk pradlice is not more fingular 

 with refped to the mode of application, than 

 with refpecl to the fpecies of flock to which 

 turneps are applied. In moft places sheep are 

 the chief confumers; but, here, cattle are 

 almoft the only objed of the turnep culture. I 

 fpeak more particularly of thepradice of this 

 Diftrid : in which, as I have before intimated^, 



the 



