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However confiderable the profit from the above 

 calculation may appear, I am very certain the pro- 

 duce of the roots will be far above what I have 

 cxprefltrd: I am convinced that the root will fatten 

 any animal, that will eat it, much quicker than the 

 root of the potatoe i but which 1 have eftimatcd far 

 below the value of that root by weight. If there- 

 fore the produce of the crop, fo poor as mine, 

 where the average would hardly admit of four 

 pounds per root; the advantage of a good one, 

 where they run from ten to twenty pounds weight, 

 mufl be far fuperior to any other vegetable 1 have 

 the lead idea of. 



I am happy to find that this plant, as the bene- 

 volent Doctor Lettfom fuggefts, may prove parti- 

 cularly ufeful to poor people j for, befrdes the ad- 

 vantage arifing from it, for culinary purpofes, a 

 very fmall bit of land will enabie them to keep a 

 cow, or at lead a pig all the fummer, which now 

 few can do without being at more expence thaa 

 the animal profits them. 



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