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fheep fifty-two days. My fheep weigh in general 

 twenty pounds a quarter. 



Turnip-rooted cabbage will produce from 

 twenty-five to thirty tons per acre; and for Spring- 

 feed are certainly the mod valuable crop within 

 the whole circle of hufbandry. They are invul- 

 nerable to froft, either in or out of the ground. 

 When farmers are in the greateil diftrefs for fheep- 

 feed, during the months of March and April, 

 thefe are an unfailing fupply, and afford more 

 milk for the lambs than any other food whatfo- 

 ever. They are alfo a firmer and more fubftan- 

 tial food than turnips, even if the latter could 

 be had good in that feafon. I have kept them 

 out of the ground near twelve months, through 

 the extremes of heat and cold ; and at the end 

 of that time, a very few excepted, they were all 

 found. 



As the roots of this plant are firmly fixed in 

 the earth, it is leaft trouble to feed them off; but 

 if you want to plough early, they may be drawn 

 with a prong, and, if thrown on a dry pafture, 

 they will keep equally good for fheep in the 

 fpring. An acre of turnip-rooted cabbage will 

 maintain one hundred fheep a month, and fome- 

 times five weeks. 



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