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nips is not very complete by fuch a nuni- 

 ber of ploughings, and harrowings, as not 

 only to reduce the foil to garden finenefs ? 

 but totally divefi: it for the time of weeds ; 

 and if the hoeings do not fet the plants at 

 a due diftance from each other, fo as to 

 admit a i o or i 2 inch hoe around every 

 one, for the utter extirpation of the re- 

 maining weeds, and for carrying on the 

 vegetable to its utmoft growth, as well for 

 the thorough covering of the land to raife 

 a fermentation, as for the value of the 

 crop : If thefe points are not well attended 

 to, this very beneficial courfc will prove by 

 no means advantageous ; for a crop of 

 fpring corn following them with graffcs 

 amongft it, and another of wheat upon 

 them, and all without the intervention of 

 more than one or two ploughings, the 

 land, if not thoroughly cleaned in the tur- 

 nip fallow, muft give a crop of wheat full 

 of weeds. And every courfe, the laft crop 

 of which is weedy, may be pronounced 

 either bad or badly managed : No land 

 is well conducted, that is not always clean: 

 It is almon: needlefs to add upon the courfe 

 of crops in queftion, that the turnips 

 ought on every account to be fed off the 



land by fheep. But to return. 



Mr. Ayer (the fteward) hoes his turnips 

 always once, and generally twice, and feeds 

 them off with fheep. He finds his clover 



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