Article XV. 



On the Advantages of cultivating Turnips^ 

 Scotch Cabbage^ Lucerne^ &c. 



[By a Gentleman Fanner in Hertfordfhire.] 



Gentlemen, H — n, March 6, 1781. 



BEING difappointed of feeing your fecretary 

 when I was at Bath laft month, I take the 

 liberty of communicating by letter, a few obfer- 

 vations, which I intended to have made to him, 

 on the number of cattle and fheep which may be 

 fed on crops of turnips, turnip-rooted cabbages, 

 and Scotch cabbages, of a certain given weight, 

 by which the comparative value of fuch crops may 

 be accurately eftimated. 



When fheep are allowed as many turnips as they 

 will eat, (which mould always be the cafe while 

 they are fattening) they will on an average confumc 

 near twenty pounds each, in 24 hours. 



An acre of turnips twice hoed will, if the land 

 be good, produce about fifty tons; which will 

 on the above calculation, maintain one hundred 



Vol. II. H fheep 



