MR. PUSEY AND HIS NEW METHOD OF HOEING TURNIPS.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
Sir,—I read in this day’s Morning Post an extract from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, headed ‟A New Method of Hoeing Turnips,” by Philip Pusey. Mr. Pusey is well known as one of those gentlemen who, within these few years, have contributed largely to the advancement of the science of agriculture; but that which is described in his communication to the Journal of the Roqal Agricultural Society as ‟a new method of hoeing turnips,” has been practised to my knowledge for the last four years, if not for a longer period, by Mr. Fielder King, of Bunton-place, near Petersfield, one of the most accomplished practical agriculturists of the time. I do not mention this to derogate from Mr. Pusey’s merit; on the contrary, I think the thanks of the public are eminently due to him for making the plan generally known through the public press, but simply to claim the merit of the discovery for the person to whom it really belongs. As an old subscriber of many years standing to your valuable and independent paper, I venture to request the insertion of this communication.—I am sir, your’s, &c.
VERAX.
3d September, 1852.