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bullocks, fee. He has ufed them four 

 years, and notwithstanding the lightnefs of 

 the foil, which is a red land, called here 

 creech, has found them of incomparable 

 fervice. The forts he has planted moft are 

 the turnip, the Batterfea, and the winter 

 green globe * ; the firft have rofe to 5 lb. 

 weight, the fecond to 1 o or 1 2 lb. and the 

 laft to 14 lb. The bailiff informed me, 

 that the laft was much the beft ; for be- 

 fides the fuperior quantity, cattle like it 

 better, and it lafts longer good in the 

 fpring. It has generally been referved for 

 the fheep in the month of April, and it 

 ftands the fharpeft frofts. The turnip cab- 

 bage, though well affected by fheep, is not 

 liked by oxen, it being extremely hard, and 

 fometimes flocky. The feeds of thefe forts 

 are fown in the beginning of March, and 

 when four inches high, pricked out into a 

 well dug bed. About Midjummer they are 

 tranfplanted into the field in rows four feet 

 afunder, and one foot or eighteen inches 

 from plant to plant. If the weather holds 

 dry, they are watered with a water-cart, 

 and at a fmall expence. Six thoufand are 

 generally allotted to an acre ; they horfc- 

 hoe them according as the weeds rife. The 

 turnip cabbage-feed coft "fys.6 d. per lb. and 

 the pricking out the plants of either fort, 



* I apprehend, the great Scotch. 

 •j- It is now only 3 s. or 4^, j.er lb. 



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