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rather too fucculent to be a very proper food for 

 horfes. I have no doubt but that cattle would 

 thrive upon it very well, though the quantity I had 

 . was too fmall to enable me to fpeak experimentally 

 to that point. 



On the whole, though it is perhaps poffihle^ that 

 in certain circumftances this plant may be cultivated 

 with profit i yet I fhould fufpedt, that if my feeds 

 were of the genuine fort> it will not be found to be 

 in general of equal value to the farmer as feveral 

 plants with which we have been long acquainted. 

 Ind^pendant of every other confideration, it appeared 

 to me that the expence of taking up and cleaning 

 this root, fo as to make it fiit to be given to the 

 cattle, would be fuch as for ever to prevent it from 

 coming into general ufe^ for the fibres that fpring 

 out from it are fo numerous and ftrong, as to en- 

 tangle a great deal of earth arnong them, from 

 which, if the earth has the fmalleft tendency to ad« 

 hefivenefs, it is a matter of great difficulty to dif- 

 engage it. During wet weather in winter I do not 



any fucculent root of the nature of this in queftion, and horfes alfo. 

 My horfes that are employed in taking turnips from the field in gene- 

 ral learn in time of themfelves to eat turnips, though horfes in general 

 do not take to this food at firft. I faw a letter laft year from a gen- 

 tleman who had been at pains to train his horfes to eat turnips, and he 

 found it put them into good condition, and gave them a fine coat. 

 He therefore thinks that young horfes might be reared upon this root 

 with advantage. 



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