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feed of the year before ; by this method the plants 

 will come up at three different times; and as the 

 fly always feizes the youngeft plants, it feldom 

 happens but that enough of each growth will be 

 left for a crop ; one pint of feed being fufficient 

 for an acre, could it be properly diftributed. In 

 purfuing this method, I never loft a turnip crop. 



i 

 Turnips, with chaff, and the draw of barley, 

 oats, or peafc, are excellent food for horfes, pro- 

 vided the ftraw be frefh threfhed, and given to 

 them as they want it. 



Galloway Scots, four years old, or almoft any 

 bead of that age, taken into the ftraw-yard in 

 October, and well attended with good ftraw and 

 turnips, will be fat by the April following. An 

 acre of good turnips is fufficient for a beaft of 

 forty ftone, fourteen pounds to the ftone. The 

 bcafts here alluded to are fuch as are brought to 

 the fairs in tolerable condition. 



A Gentleman Farmer. 



Sibton Abbey, Oft. 18, 1778. 



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