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greateft Hurry of Bufinefs in the 

 Kitchen-gardens is over : fo that 

 they ufually formed themfelves in 

 fmall Gangs of fix or feven Perfons, 

 and fet out on their different Routes; 

 each Gang fixing at a Diftance 

 from the reft, and undertaking the 

 Work of as many Farmers in the 

 Neighbourhood, as they could ma- 

 nage in the Seafon : but as this 

 Work is now perform'd by many 

 Country Labourers, that Practice is 

 loft to the Kitchen-gardeners, the 

 Labourers doing it much cheaper. 



There has alfo been another Me- 

 thod praclis'd very lately, by fome 

 very curious Farmers, in cultivating 

 of Turneps ; which is, by fowing 

 the Seed in- Rows, with the Drill- 

 plough. In fome Places, the Rows 

 are fown three Feet afunder, in 

 others four, in fome five, and fome 

 fix. The latter has been recommend- 

 ed by fome, as the molt proper Di- 

 ftance ; and although the Intervals 

 are fo large, yet the Crop produe'd 

 on an Acre has been much greater, 

 than upon the fame Quantity of 

 Land where the Rows have been 

 but half this Diltance ; and upon all 

 the Fields which have been drilled, 

 the Crops have greatly exceeded 

 thofe which have been hand-hoed. 

 The late Lord Vifcount To<wvJkcnd 

 was at the Expence of making the 

 Trial of thefe two different Methods 

 of Hufbandry, with the greateft 

 Care, by equally dividing the fame 

 Fields into different Lands, which 

 were alternately fown in Drills, and 

 the intermediate Lands in broad 

 Caft. The latter were hoed by 

 Hand, in the common Method, and 

 the other cultivated by the Hoeing- 

 plough ; and when the Roots were 

 fully grown, his Lordfliip had an 

 equal Quantity of Land, which had 

 been fown in different Methods, 

 nieafured, and the Roots drawn up 



and weighed ; and thofe Roots 

 which, had been cultivated by the 

 Plough, were fo much larger than 

 the other, that the Crop of one Acre 

 weighed a Ton and an hair more than 

 thatof an Acrein theotherHufbandry. 



But when the Turneps are fown 

 in Drills, they will require to be 

 hoed by Hand, to feparate and cut 

 out the Plants, where they are too 

 near together in theRows ; as alfo to 

 cut up the Weeds between the Plants 

 where the Plough cannot reach them. 

 If this is carefully perform'd, the 

 plowing of the Intervals, which en- 

 courage the Growth of the Roots, 

 by thus ftirring of the Ground, will 

 make it much better prepaid for 

 the Crop of Barley, or whatever 

 elfe is fown the following Spring. 

 This Method of Culture may be fup- 

 pos'd to be more expenfive than 

 that commonly pra&is'd, by thofe 

 unacquainted with it ; but thofe who 

 have made Trials of both, find the 

 Horfe - plowing to be much the 

 cheapeft, and by far the beft. For 

 the Country - people who are em- 

 ployed in Hand-hoeing of Turneps, 

 are very apt to hurry over their 

 Work, fo that half the Weeds are 

 left growing, and the Plants are fel- 

 dom fingled out fo well as they 

 fhould be ; nor are they curious 

 enough to diftinguifh the Charlock 

 (which is one of the moft common 

 Weeds in arable Land) from the 

 Turneps ; fo that about the Middle 

 of September it is very common to fee 

 the Fields of Turneps full of the 

 yellow Flowers of the Charlock. 

 Now, in the Horfe-plowing, all the 

 Weeds in the Intervals will be in - 

 tirely deftroyed ; fo that if a few 

 Plants in the Rows of Turneps 

 fhould be overlook'd, they may be 

 eafily drawn out when they appear 

 vifible. 



The greateft Evil which attends a 

 4- F 2 Crop 



