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ploughed land, the same day the land is ploughed. I hope 
gentlemen and farmers will try Mr. C.’s method upon 
part of their turnip ground, by which, and comparing 
that part with the other, it3 merit, or inefhcacy, may be 
ascertained and determined. 
Further Memorandums on Turnips, Common and 
Swedish. 
Mr. Knight’s'steward, who manages another farm, 
where he cultivates turnips broadcast, thinks he 
beats Mr. Knight's drilled crop; the latter has chal¬ 
lenged him to weigh, which he has hitherto declined. 
Mr. Knight informed me that his Swedish turnips, 
were this year, 1807, manured for with muck, the 
crop preceding having been common turnips ; that 
part of the seed had been procured from Sweden, he 
having connections there in the iron trade ; but, 
neither he nor I could perceive any advantage either 
way in the crop, between foreign and English seed. - 
Memorandum , Oct. 1807-—Turnips which escaped 
the mildew common on them this season, now stow 
fast; the Swedish have been less affected, and are 
thriving and good. 
I more than once called at Mr. Knight’s, at a time 
fixed to have weighed a perch of turnips, drill and 
broadcast, and thus to have ascertained the weight of 
each per acre; but the weather was so unfavourable 
each time that it was obliged to be given up; but X 
know, from experiments of my own, that it requires 
a very good crop to be twenty tons per acre, that half 
the quantity is much oftener grown, and that a good 
average crop is not more than fourteen or fifteen tons 
per acre. 
Swedish Turnips are grown in this county, but not 
K 9 considerably; 
