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pafture; and the butter obtained from their milk is 

 not inferior to any. 



I have mentioned (heep particularly, becaufe 

 burnet feems to be more peculiarly beneficial to 

 them than to cattle. 



The great excellence of the Turnip-rooted Cab- 

 bage is, its being a certain and early food in fpring, 

 when it is generally mod wanted. 



Wifhing your Society the fucccfs they fo well 

 deferve, 



I am, with much refpecl, Sir, 



Your obedient fervant. 



A Lover of Georgical Purfuits. 



N. B. We agree perfectly with our correfpondent, in 

 a high opinion of the value of parfnips, as a food for cattle; 

 and have been induced to infert his letter as a frefh call of 

 the public attention to the fubjeft, though by no means as 

 to a new, or wholly neglected matter. His encomium on 

 burnet may be confidered alfo as much anticipated by for- 

 mer writer?. But if it (hall be proved, that this well- 

 known plant is either generally, or under particular cir- 

 pumftances, a perfect cure for the rot in Jheep^ much benefit 

 will be found to refult from the fact. 



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