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Sect. VI 1 1. Of the Advantages accruing from thj^ 

 L introdu^ion of the New Articles above fpecified into 



Field Culture, in applying them to the rearing and 



fattening of Cattle, 



The improvements made by cultivating turnips 

 for the feed of fheep and fattening of cattle, is fo 

 generally known, and extenfively pradifed, that it 

 feems urjnecelTary to fay any thing on that head. 

 I will, hovyeyer, beg leave to obferve here, that the 

 opinion generally maintained, that turnips are an 

 improper food for milch-cows, as it fpoils the cream 

 and butter by impregnating the milk with the ftrong 

 flavour of the turnip, appears to me, by repeated 

 experiments, to be ill-founc' !d. The two laft winr 

 ters and fprings my milch-cows lived chiefly on 

 turnips, and their butter was found not only as 

 good as my neighbours, whofe cows ate none, but 

 was evert preferred to it. They fay their opinion 

 is grounded on experience as well as mine. The 

 difficulty, I apprehend, lies here: My turnips are 

 pulled, brought home, and given to the cows in the 

 yard; their cows have been ufed to be J:urned in 

 upon them, where they pick up the charlock and 

 other weeds which abound among them, for they 

 are never hoed ; and to this, and not the turnips, 

 I am perfuaded, thedifagreeable flavour of the miilk 

 is owing. It muft be obferved that the turnips 



fliould 



