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afunder, then with hand-hoes he fets them 

 out into fquares of fourteen inches, and after 

 that, with a double mold board plough, 

 earths them up, and finds the crop much 

 better than in the common method, and the 

 land left in finer order. 



An experiment he tried of the effect of 

 electricity on vegetation, deferves attention ; 

 he planted two turneps in two boxes, each 

 containing 24/^. of earth : He kept them in 

 the fame expofure, and all circumftances the 

 fame to each, fave that one was electrified 

 twice a day, for two months, at the end of 

 which time it was in full growth, the fkin 

 burfting, and weighed 9 lb. The other, at 

 the end of four months, did not quite reach 

 that weight: A ftrong proof that the electric 

 fire had a remarkable power in promoting 

 and quickening the vegetation. 



An excellent invention, in the mechanical 

 way, by this ingenious hufbandman, is that 

 of a turnep dicer ; 



Description of a Machine to Slice 

 Turneps, for feeding Neat Cattle, &c. 



PLATE I. 



Figure 1 . is the perfpective of the whole ma- 

 chine, which is about four feet fix inches high, 

 two feet fix inches long, and two feet wide outfide 

 meafure ; it is made of common deal, three quar- 

 ters of an inch thick, and its four pofts are of oak, 

 about four inches fquare ; the feet, handles, Aiding 

 frame, crofs bars, &c. are alfo of oak : The whole 



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