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and ill-taftcd; but this is a vulgar error. I know 

 that the beft mutton in this county (and few 

 counties have better) is all fed with turnips. It 

 is rank pafture, and marfhy land, that produces 

 rank mutton. 



If the land be wet and fpringy, the bed method 

 is to draw and carry off your turnips to fome dry 

 pafture; for the treading of the cattle will not 

 only injure the crop, but render the land fo Ihff, 

 that you mud be at an additional expence in 

 ploughing. 



Perhaps, Gentlemen, I ought to alk pardon for 

 having troubled you with fo long a letter; but 

 however I may have failed in the execution, my 

 defign is to excite your attention to a fubjecl of 

 xmich importance in agriculture; the exact know- 

 ledge of which may tend to introduce improve- 

 ments in this branch of cultivation, not yet gene- 

 rally praclifcd in the Weftern counties. 



I am, Gentlemen, 



Your humble fervant, 



: e.n. 



B j Feb, 2r, 178 1. 



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