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the cafe, how would it be poiiible in this 

 courfe to have a good crop of wheat ? And 

 yet no wheat is liner than what is thus 

 ("own in many tracks of country I have 

 viewed. The clover and ray-grafs would 

 enable them to keep good Hocks of flicep 

 to fold all the year round, and to eat off 

 their turnips with, to the greateft profit, 

 which would be a conftant and regularly 

 increafmg improvement to their whole 

 farms. But all this is very contrary to 

 their prefent management, and totally in- 

 compatible with the wretched cuftom of 

 not hoeing their turnips. 



In the next place, the culture of carrots 

 on their lands would be an admirable im- 

 provement ; I examined attentively fevnral 

 fields in which the fand was of a dark co- 

 lour, moift, and fmelt and felt as if of a rich 

 nature, which the weeds and crops from it 

 proved to be no falfe conjecture ; at the 

 fame time it admitted one's running in a 

 walking-cane a yard deep; this is precifely 

 the foil, which, about Woodbridge in Suf- 

 folk, is applied to the culture of carrots 

 to ib great profit : This root is for every 

 purpofe, infinitely fupcrior to turnips, fo 

 that if it w T as fubitituted for them in the 

 preceding courfe, the profit w T ould be vaftly 

 greater: But fuch an extent cannot be ex- 

 pected at firft, and fuppofing turnips to be 



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