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From this comparifon it plainly appears, 

 that this vegetable is, in genera], dearer in 

 the north than in the ibuth ; and I mould 

 remark, that the more the tour was ex- 

 tended through the north, the greater dif- 

 proportion would be found between the 

 quantity hoed and not hoed ; and the far- 

 ther it was extended in the fouth, the more 

 in proportion would be found to be hoed : 

 hence arifes the feeming fuperiority of the 

 unhoed crops. The unhoed average in the 

 north being fuperior to that of the hoed, is 

 owing to the fame reafon; feveral places 

 are minuted where turneps are fo fcarce as 

 to be valued, even for cattle, at 7/. and 8/. 

 This raifes the average of the unhoed crops, 

 for we may be arTured, from fuch fcarcity, 

 that hoeing is quite unknown. 



But there is another very ftrong and con- 

 vincing proof, that, in every country, hoed 

 turneps are fuperior to unhoed ones, and 

 that is, the feveral comparifons made in the 

 refpecliive places ; for inftance, near Litch- 

 field, the hoed crops fell at 35 s. but the un- 

 hoed at only 20s. Near Birmingham the 

 hoed at 40 s. the unhoed at no more than 

 20 s. Around the Marquis of Rockiirjjc 

 the hoed at 40 j\ the unhoed at only 20 s. 

 At Raby-cajile, the hoed at 5/. the unhoed 

 3/. 1 ox. Near Newca/l/e, the hoed 4/. 4^. 

 the unhoed no n>ore than 3 /. Thefe places 

 include both the nort*h and fouth 3 the fu- 

 periority 



