USES OF FURZE AND ITS BLOSSOMS. 25 



twenty-five tuns eighteen hundred sixty-four pounds per 



Acre. The caterpillar was very destructive. I have picked 



off in a morning as many as would fill a quart pot. Al- No caterpillars 



though the kohl rabi was planted near to the cabbage, 1 °" b J he - kohI 



never saw a caterpillar upon any of the plants. 



In the middle of June, I sewed the remainder of the Swedish tur- 

 6eld with Swedish turnips, but lost two thirds of this crop nii)S * 

 by the fly. One of the best of the Swedish turnips is here 

 produced, in order to show the great superiority of the kohl 

 rabi, as there is not that waste in being eaten upon the 

 ground, as it bulbs above, and the Swedish turnip in the 

 ground. When the sheep have eaten the turnip level with 

 the ground, and scooped out the inside, the remainder 

 serves as a reservoir for the dirt and filth. The produce of 

 this field has been sufficient for nine score of suckling ewes 

 with rowen for five months. I sent to market, at Christ- 

 mas last, house lambs fattened with milk only, which 

 weighed eleven stone and one pound each, alive, at eleven 

 weeks old. Should the Society consider these observations 

 worthy of notice, I shall feel myself happy in hearing from 

 you. 



I am, Sir, very respectfully, 



Your obedient servant, 



JOHN SADDINGTON. 



On the Properties of Furze, or Whins. Communicated by 

 Major Spencer Cochrane, of Muirfield House, near 

 Haddington, North Britain *. 



SIR, 



JL HE Society having honoured me, by publishing in their p opp y u. 

 25th volume, ray communication, stating the advantages 

 arising from the culture of poppies, and that seven ounces 

 of fine salad oil were furnished by expression from two 



* Trans, of the Society of Arts, vol. XXVII, p. 77. 



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