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Article XXXIIL 

 On the Benefit of Cultivating Par/nips and Burnet. 



Gentlemen, 



I Have with much pleafure and much inftru&ion 

 perufed your felection of papers communicated 

 to the public ; and am of opinion, that there is a 

 plant, I mean the Parfnip, which has not been yet 

 tried by any of your correfpondents ; but which is 

 jn France, and in our adjoining iflands, held in high 

 efteem as a food, particularly for cattle and fwine. 

 In Brittany, efpecially, they mention it as little in- 

 ferior in value to wheat. Milch cows fed with it 

 in winter, fay they, give as good milk, which yields 

 as well-flavoured butter, as milk in May or June, 

 and in as great abundance. It is much commended 

 for fwine, which rear young pigs. It alio proves 

 very ufeful in fattening fvvine. 



For a complete account of its ufes, confult a 

 volume of Memoirs publifhed by a Society at 

 Rennes, inftituted for fimilar purpofes as your's. 

 I think there is a tranflation of the Memoirs in 

 Mills's hufbandry. 



Some judgment may be formed of the compa- 

 rative value of plants as food, from the proportion 



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