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the genuine fyftem of Norfolk hufbandry is 

 pradllfed. 



There are three ways of harvefiing the tur- 

 nep-crop : 



A. Drawing and carting off the whole crop. 



B* Drawing and diflributing the whole ovef 

 the turnep^ground. 



C. Carting off half, and diflributing half. 



The two lafl, however, are in ufe only where 

 (beep are the fole or joint confumers. The 

 firft, therefore, may be called the general prac- 

 tice: and it is probable that nine-tenths of 

 the turneps grown in Ealt-Norfolk are har- 

 veiled in that way. 



A. Carting-off the whole. This pro- 

 cefs merits a minute defcription. 



a. The time of drawing commences about 

 Michaelmas, and continues until the plants be 

 in blow. 



b. The procefs of drawing. This, in fevere 

 weather, is an employment which nothing but 

 euftom could reconcile, to thofe whofe lot it is 

 to go through it : namely, flout lads and youths; 

 whofe hands are frequently fwelled until the 

 joints are only to be difcerned by the dimples 

 they form ; neverthelefs, I have not heard an 



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