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of very great importance, and ought to be followed 

 by every winter-grazing farmer: fince zfmall por- 

 tion of this hardy and abiding plant, cultivated ex- 

 aRly as the common turnip, would remedy the great 

 inconvenience and expence that is commonly fuf- 

 fered in the beginning of fpring, when on all foils, 

 more efpecially the heavier ones, turnips muft be 

 gone ; and no material grafs-feed can in common, 

 or to any great degree, be had. From a few plants of 

 this turnip-rooted cabbage, which I raifed when it 

 was firft talked of, it feemed more fuitable to our 

 ftronger foils than the common turnip, and far more 

 capable of bearing froft -, when boiled, its root has 

 much of the cabbage flavour. An acre or two of 

 this, as a Jure refource> even if a fallow followed it* 

 would be valuable ; but to an Engli(h farmer, be- 

 fides buck-wheat, there are fo many feeds, roots, 

 and grafTes, for fummer-fowing, fo well known, that 

 $he fallow will probably be unneceiTary. 



In a note on your 43d Article, it feems doubted 

 whether four horfes be equal to the due cultivation 

 of one hundred acres of arable j but it fhould be 

 recollected, that with us, no inconfiderable portion 

 of this ifc in rotation after corn, under artificial paf- 

 turagej and it is this plan of modern farming that 

 is the uncontradi&able fact in fupport of/ all in- 

 clofures, as it nearly infures an equal quantity of 



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