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Garden-peas I have lately found to bear the 

 winter much better than the field-pea, with 

 the fame treatment. But they all require a lit- 

 tle manure. Four loads per acre will produce 

 upon a middling foil a good crop. 



SECTION XII. 



Turnip -Culture in all the different Stages ; with 

 the great Advantage of the Drill. 



TO raife turnip-feed in the bed manner, you 

 muft pull up, from the field where they flood 

 all winter, fome turnips of the mofl approved 

 forts (I prefer the white-top, or the flone-tur- 

 nip), and plant them in a fmall fpot of ground — 

 a dozen will produce plenty of feed, Preferve 

 that feed, and fow it in fome convenient place, 

 to raife feed for your whole crop the next year* 

 Put them in drills, and do not hoe them -, but 

 draw them out by hand, leaving fuch plants as 

 take the lead. When they have appled or 

 turned, carefully pull out every improper tur- 

 nip. By following the above method, your 

 feed will be more vigorous, will vegetate with 

 lefs moifture, and produce ftronger and hardier 

 plants. It is ufual at prefent to tranfplant a 

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