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I have prepared feveral acres to Ije 

 ploughed next May or June for the Scotch 

 cabbage ; the reafon why I have n( 

 entered iboner upon the cukure of tha 

 plant is, becaufe turnips fucceed admirabb; 

 well with me. The account you give in 

 your 4th vol. of the produce of a field ot 

 turnips on good land at Kiplin^ being five 

 tun per acre, and the confequence drawn 

 from that one fad:, I think convevs an 

 idea of the turnip culture much too un- 

 favourable. I have for feveral years 

 weighed both my own turnips and thofe 

 of the farmers in my neighbourhood ; 

 they always hoe well, but only once *. In 

 November 1 763, feveral pieces were weighed 

 to determine fome prizes I had offered, when 

 29 tun per acre were the medium produce. 

 October z(:)\\\ 1764, the medium produce of 

 turnips drilled in fingle rows on five foot 

 ridges, and hcrfehoed,was I4tun Sifone. At 

 the fame time, the acreable produce of thofe 

 fovv'-n at random, but on land manured wich 

 1 5 load of dung, whereas the former had only 

 10, was 32 tun 10 ftone. In November 1765, 

 drilled turnips, viz. a double row on 5 foot 

 ridges, weighed 27 \MVi per acre. In 1766, 



* I fhould here obferve, that the crops at Kiplln 

 mentioned by Sir Dighy, were not hoed at all ; a 

 circumftance fully lufficicnt to account for their 

 inferiority. 



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