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fore remarked concerning hoeing of beinc, 

 is applicable to turneps, only much more 

 ftrong, for beans are not made a fallow 

 crop (that is, fucceeded by corn) in flovenly 

 management near fo often as turneps : I 

 know not any part of England in which 

 land is fallowed the year fucceeding tur- 

 neps ; they are every where confidered as a 

 fallow, and barley generally fowed after 

 them : The terrible effects of this conduct 

 muft be prodigious, for the unhoed crops 

 of turneps are (except on pared and burnt 

 Jand) univerfally full of weeds, that have 

 time to perfect, and drop their feeds, be- 

 iides exhaufting the foil of that nourish- 

 ment which the crop ought to poffefs. The 

 harley that fucceeds muft infallibly be a 

 weedy crop, and if the courfe goes on, the 

 foil muft be quite poifoned with trumpery. 

 But relative to the turneps themfelves, 

 the difference between the hoed, and the 

 unhoed ones, is greater than commonly 

 imagined in the north. The very beft 

 field to be found at Kiplin, a fine gravelly 

 foil, of 1 6 j\ an acre, and the very beft f|)Ot 

 in the whole field, weighed under thirteen 

 tons, which would certainly reduce the 

 average product of the neighbourhood to 

 four or five tons : Now fuch a foil, well 

 managed, and without dung, whereas that 

 field was well manured, mould produce, on 

 an average, thirty tons per acre, and tho- 

 roughly 



