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ments of the kind we are now confiderlng, 

 much attention ought to be given, before 

 we pronounce againft a vegetable. If it 

 fails in one method, try it in another : if 

 a flight culture will not do, give it an 

 extraordinary one, and try it in every way 

 before it is abfolutely rejed:ed. 



I have feen cabbages worth from 20 /. 

 to 30 /. an acre, whole fields through : and 

 lucerne that will feed, at the rate of four or 

 five cows per acre, from April to Odober, 

 inclufive ; fainfoine often yields three tons 

 of hay per acre, and on foils far from rich. 

 Carrots are frequently worth, from 12/. 

 to 30 /. an acre. Now, if cabbages are 

 planted upon dry turnip-land, an improper 

 fort fixed on, that will not laft through the 

 fpring ; — good manuring, horfe and hand- 

 hoeing, or, in a word, all the exertions 

 of fpirited hufbandry omitted, what profit 

 can be expedted from this vegetable? If 

 lucerne is fown on wet foils, or not kept 

 moft perfectly clean from weeds, it cannot 

 anfwer. Sainfoine may be fown on fpewy 

 clays, and carrots on a limeftone chalk, 

 not fix inches deep ; in cafe of ill-fuccefs, 

 who can be furprifed ? The fault is pal- 

 pably in the cultivator, not the vegetable. 



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