[ 45 2 ] 

 The general rife from 5/. and 10/. to 

 10 jr. and 20 s. is fomething, but not what 

 might be fuppofed, from a crop that mult 

 be fallowed for till Midfummcr y and conse- 

 quently not in the fame danger of deftruc- 

 tion by weeds in rich land, as beans or 

 peaie. I attribute the limilarity of thefe 

 products to the practice of paring and burn- 

 ing. — In a large track of country in the 

 North, they generally pare and burn for 

 rape, which is lb excellent a method, that 

 the crops they get on poor land, even on 

 moor land of 2 J. 6d. an acre, are very 

 great : this is the reafon why rent bears no 

 more proportion to the crops. 



Turn 



p s. 



Hoed. 



7 

 4 

 9 



Ditto from 20/. 1040.1-. 2 10 



Rent to 5 s. per acre, 

 Ditto from 51. to ioj\ 

 Ditto from 1 os. to 1 5s. 

 Ditto from 1 $s. to 20s. 



6 



10 

 o 



10 

 o 



Unhoed. 



5 10 



16 

 1 1 

 18 

 10 



10 



9 

 6 



10 



Average, 



8 1 o [ 2 1 6 9 



The conclufion which fome would draw 

 at nrfl fight from this table, is to the dif- 

 advantage of hoeing. And truly this ftate 

 of the cafe is, I apprehend, • one of the 

 moil extraordinary combinations I mail 

 meet with in the whole courfe of thefe en- 

 quiries. The exigence of fuch a vegetable 

 as a turnep, is not a more certain fact, 



than 



