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given them. Young calves were alfo very fond of 

 the leaves, and would hardly tou;:h any other food 

 aftt-r they had eaten of them, except milk. Pigs 

 I believe, prefer them to any other vegetable that 

 they are commonly fed with, and feed fafler with 

 them than with potatoes. I do not find that horfei 

 are fond either of the leaf or root} after repeated 

 trials they will fometimes eat a few leaves, but foon 

 leave them for other food. 



I have chiefly appropriated my crop of leaves to 

 the feeding of pigs; and perhaps the following ac- 

 count of the adual profits I have made, will place 

 the utility of thi^ plant in a more obvious point of 

 view, than by any other mode in whxh I could 

 pofllbly exprefs myfclf. 



Two cows were fed four weeks entirely with 

 mangel-wurzel leaves, and two calves eight weeks, 



Sept. 1 8th, Sold four pigs at il. each, fed en- 

 tirely with the leaves from the time they were eight 

 \vccks old. 



Nov. 1 6th, Sold four pigs for 5I. 5s. fed with the 

 leaves from the time they were weaned, 



Befides the above, upwards of twenty pigs, of 

 9H fi^e^, have been conftantly fed with thefc leaves, 



fincc 



