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ficial practices : Nay, many parts of 



England at this day, will not hear of 

 turnip-hoeing. Go at prefent to a farmer 

 who lives in the rich clays of Effex, and 

 who cannot few a turnip from the ftrength 

 of his foil, and tell him, that he may 

 cultivate cabbages with much greater fuc- 

 cefs, than his brethren on light foils do 

 turnips, will he not laugh at you for a 

 fool? But the time will inevitably come, 

 w^hen clay farmers will rcjed a leafc that 

 forbids their cultivating this vegetable. 



But how are farmers to gain the know- 

 ledge of fuch imporrant fafts, but by the 

 previous pradice of gentlemen ? Thofe of 

 fmall fortune fliould in this, and {imilar 

 inftances, try the fuccefs repeatedly in 

 fmall pieces of ground, and when the 

 fuccefs is favourable, and they clearly per- 

 ceive the profit, to extend thefe fmall trials 

 by degrees, until they have Introduced 

 them into the common culture of their 

 farms at large. The continuance of fuch 

 a pradice muft, in time, bring the farmers 

 to imitate it ; and confequently, add to 

 their own and the kingdom's benefit. 



But in profecuting fuch a plan, fome 



prudence and attention is requifite to other 



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