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 SECTION LXIV. 



OhfervatiQns on Rape ^ Difference between Cole 

 and Rape : Reafons why Rape-feed does not in- 

 jure Land. 



RAPE ought to be drilled, in the fame man- 

 ner as defcribed for the culture of peas and tur- 

 nips, in Sedlion XII. with manure in the drills; 

 and, like peas and turnips, fhould be cleaned 

 in the fpring by the plough. This, if properly 

 done, would make the land equal to the bed 

 fallow in the kingdom. The falling of the 

 leaves, and the fmothering of the crop, would 

 keep it in a perfedly mellow ftate ; and if the 

 ftraw and roots were immediately cleaned off, 

 the ground fcariiied, and a fufficient quantity 

 of feeds fown, there would be a crop of rape to 

 be eaten by fheep betwixt the time of reaping 

 the rape and that of fowing wheat. This, in- 

 ftead of impoverifliing, would improve the land 

 in a very confiderable degree, and intermix the 

 manure in the beft pofTible manner. It is to be 

 recollected that rape has two years' rent upon 

 it, and without fome management of this fort. 



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