applied to the growth of other articles of food ufed 

 as a fuccedaneum to herbage ? Let us try. 



By an experiment made on a pretty large fcale, 

 lately, by Mr. Vagg, it feems to appear, that cab- 

 bage on arable land is much about as fuperior to na- 

 tural pafture as potatoes. His experiment was 



made on twelve acres of land, which was very far 

 from being the mod fuitable for a crop of cabbage. 

 The average value about 30s. per acre, and the. 

 whole expence of the culture, carting off included, 

 ll. 14s. id. per acre. The rent and expences of cul- 

 tivating the twelve acres then amounted tojSl. 9s. 

 He fays the (lock he fed with it was forty-five oxen, 

 and upwards of fixty fheep; that it fed them three 

 months, and that he is very well affured that they 

 proved as fad upon it as they do in the prime months 

 of the feafon, May, June, and July. Now if, in- 

 flead of fixty fheep, we reckon fifteen oxen, or that 

 four fheep are about equal to one ox, in which we 

 cannot err much; then fixty oxen were kept well for 

 three months, or, which is the fame thing, fifteen 

 oxen for a whole year, for 3 81. 9s. and confequently 

 twenty would cod 51I. 5s. 4d. which is not quite 3I. 

 more than the keep of 20 cows coft in potatoes. 



. It is fomewhat extraordinary that two experi- 

 ments, made on articles fo very different in their 



nature. 



