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can obferve that all thofe that have been killed, dif- 

 covcred feme tendency to be about to fliooc up into 

 flower- flems towards the end of autumn, 



I was anxious to know whether it continued late 

 in the feafon before it began to run to feed in the 

 fpring, as 1 was in hopes that if it (hould be fo, it 

 would have fome chance of proving a valuable ad- 

 dition to our catalogue of ufeful plants; but here 

 alfo I have been difappointed. The feafon has been 

 backward, and our turnips are only now (March 

 23d) beginning to (hew their flower-ftems. The 

 root of fcarcity is alfo fad advai#cing to the fame 

 ftage of its growth, fo that it will probably fail about 

 the fame time with the turnip crop. 



The root is relifhed very well by cattle, and my 



horfes eat it \* but I fhould fear it was of a nature 



L 3 rather 



* I find fome perfons who have offered this root to horfes, which 

 refufedioeat it, entertain doubts if horfes could ever be brought to 

 eat it; 1)Ut no one ought in a cafe of this kind to be deterred by* fingle 

 trial. It often happens that a particular animal, or indeed many indi* 

 viduals, will rcfufc to eat a particular food they have not been accuf- 

 tomcd to, which is well known to be both wholefome and palatable to 

 that clafs of animals in general. I have feen many cattle that were, 

 with great difficulty, brought to cat turnips, and fome that never would 

 take to that feeding kindly, fo as to fatten upon it. 1 have alfo been 

 informed, upon authority I could not doubt, that fome (heep h?vc 

 a«5^ually died before they could be brought to tafte that root. By a 

 little attention, however, cattle may m general be brought to relifh 



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