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of hay. No manure for either cabbage or turnip. Cab- 

 bages never exhausted his land, which always worked better 

 for barley or oats than his turnip land. No cattle could do 

 better than his cows when on cabbages, and the cream and 

 butter fi ee from any disagreeable taste. The seed was al- 

 ways sown as early in the spring as possible, on land well 

 sheltered, dunged, and dug. The moment he" perceived 

 the fly on tlie young plants, he sowed the beds with wood- 

 ashes, which instantly destroyed the fly, and so far from 

 hurting the plants, that It was astonishing to see how they 

 were invigorated by it. They were planted out the third 

 or fourth week in May. Air. Forby always mucked 

 the land intended for the crop soon after MichaeLnas, 

 which he found far preferable to doing it just before plant- 

 ing. In a very severe frost v/hich destroyed ail the tur- 

 nips, Mr. Forby's cabbages escaped, and were of im- 

 mense use. 



Subsequent to this communication he further informed 

 me, that he had never seen any piece of land at Fincham 

 planted part with cabbages and part with turnips, where 

 the former did not exceed the latter four-fold at least. 

 Doubts having been expressed whether they did not im- 

 poverish the land, he formed an experiment upon a 

 course of crops to ascertain that point, by a rotation which 

 would prove it, if the fadl were so. The land middling, 

 let at I2S. an acre. He spread 14 loads per acre of dung 

 on a wheat stubble, and plougiied it in soon after Michael- 

 mas. Three ploughings more were given, and cabbages 

 planted in June: then oats: then wheat. No person in 

 the parish had cleaner oats or wheat, nor any such large 

 crops ; 15 coombs an acre of oats, and six coombs one bushel 

 ofwheat; and two years in five, 19 coombs an acre of oats, 

 and nine coombs one bushel of wheat. No sheep or cattle 



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