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bruary; the bore cole longer-, the cabbages 

 came to a good lize, and the crop paid extreme- 

 ly well. Tares and beans were fown after 

 them, and yielded a great produce. 



In 1775, fix acres, manured with lime and 

 ditch-earth, well mixed, and at planting time, a 

 little dung laid to each root ; the forts the fame 

 as la ft year, with fome red cabbage; the crop 

 very fine, many came to 1 6 lb. ufed for the fame 

 purpofes, and anfwered perfectly well. This 

 year I viewed the crop, and a very fine one it 

 was, clean, well horfe-hoed, and promifes to be 

 a great produce. Upon the whole, Lord Fara- 

 ham ftrongly recommends the culture from ex- 

 perience ; if he was to farm 40 years, he would 

 never be without them for his cows, his plough 

 bullock, and for finiftiing thofe fat beads which 

 have had the fummer grafs ; he thinks them far 

 better than turnips ; that an acre will go farther, 

 is eafier cultivated, and got from the land with 

 lefs damage. Nor is this opinion founded from 

 any ignorance of turnips, his Lordfhip lived fe- 

 veral years in Norfolk, and attended to the im- 

 menfe advantages reaped in that county from 

 the cultivation of them ; he introduced them 

 at Farnham the fame time as cabbages ; they are 

 difficult to cultivate in Ireland, from the igno- 

 rance of the people in hoeing -, he has drilled 

 part, and had part broad caft; the drilled much 

 the beft, from their being fo much better hoed; 

 drills in furrows two feet afunder j I faw this 

 year's crop, and found them very fine, clean, 

 and promifed to be good. Since this was writ- 

 ten, Lord Farnham informs me, that in 1777, 



he 



