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I apprehended near the average fize, and 

 found them, upon a medium, 7 lb. each : I 

 fliould fuppofe the crop will come to 10 or 



I I lb, each. 



Cabbages are found much fuperior to 

 turnips ; this is a remark Mr. Crowe has 

 conftantly made, and it was proved ftrongly 

 this year, by a piece of turnips being fown 

 in the cabbage field, which evidently to the 

 eye were not comparable to the cabbages ; 

 not amounting to above a fixth part of the 

 weight of them. 



The mention of turnips reminds me of 

 the very bad common hufbandry of this 

 country, relative to turnips, viz, the not 

 hoeing them. Of the produdt of crops lb 

 managed, I can give a pretty exa£t account ; 

 for expreffing a defire to weigh a fquare 

 perch of the common turnips, Mr. Crowe 

 carried me to a field of one of his tenants 

 for that purpofe ; as he was willing to give 

 them fair play, he rejected the firft field, 

 on viewing it, as the crop was very bad: We 

 then walked to a fecond, and that proving 

 much the fame, he enquired of the people 

 with him where the beft common crop was 

 to be foimd.- Their opinions were va- 

 rious, but for fatisfadtion we walked from 

 one to another, and at laft one was fixed on 

 as the beft ; furthermore, the very beft fpot 

 in the whole field was fought for and found, 

 and a fquare perch meafured, the turnips 



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