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Article XXXIV. 



On the IJe and Value of Turnip-rooted Cabbage. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 



Sir, Hethel, June 21, 1787. 



I Have been for a long time fo much occupied by 

 other matters, that little leifure has been afforded 

 me for experiment or obfervation on agricultural 

 affairs. The following one, whereby the ufe and 

 value of the Turnip -rooted Cabbage may be in 

 fome degree afcertained, I uanfmit for the infpec- 

 tion of the Gentlemen of the Society, andfubmitto 

 their confideration, how far, from this account, the 

 cultivation of that root appears to merit their future 

 encouragement. 



The following is an account of the cattle or 

 beads fed from five acres of turnip-rooted cab- 

 bages - } four acres of which were eaten upon the 

 land as they were growing, (but parted off by fold- 

 hurdles into portions of about an acre each) and 

 one acre pulled up and carried to the flables and 

 ox-houfes. Theie turnips were fown and culti- 

 vated as other turnips ; the beafts were put to them 

 on the 13th of April, and continued feeding upon 

 them till the 12th of May following. 



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