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Experimtiils on Manures. 
In the foregoing experiments I liave not weighed the fibrous roots (as 
these could not be said to be edible matter), they having been scraped off 
the bulb with a knife. Nos. 2 and 5 were the first to come to the hoe 
by three days ; tlie rest were nnicli alike, except No. 9, which was always 
behind. Neitlicr this nor the previous year were my swedes annoyed to 
any extent by either fly or canker, while my white turnips were very 
nuich eaten off; but owing to very favourable weather, they overgrew the 
damage, and I had, upon the whole, a fair crop. 
I have hitherto grown my turnips on the flat, but from a close ob- 
servation of the ridge-system on my neighbours' farms, I am quite pre- 
pared another year to adopt it. 
I think the result of the experiments on the present crop of turnips 
has fully compensated for all trouble I have been ut in personally super- 
intending all my experiments, which, as you may judge, have taken no 
small time ; but as I think it every man's business who tries experiments, 
to give them, as I beg the above may be, to the proper authorities 
to judge of their fitness to be submitted to public inspection, so I also 
consider it to be equally their business to give the same their full personal 
superintendence, as then, and then only, can they vouch for their ac- 
curacy, and the agricultural world may then rely on their testimony. 
Your very obedient servant, 
Francis Clowes. 
Hemslcij, Feb. 2Alh, 1843. 
