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communicates no offenfive taftc to the milk. Th« 

 remainder of the roots were given to pigsj two 

 Vrere entirely fatted by them, and weighed about 

 a6olb. each when killed. 



I have this year fowed more, and fhould any 

 thing occur in regard to the cuJturc and manage- 

 ment worth mentioning, 1 ihall be happy to com- 

 municate it, 



I am. Sir, your obedient fcrvant, 



BRYAN J'ANSON BROMWICH, 



(^ The feverity of the froft in the winter of 1 788 was 

 uncommonly great, and therefore it cannot be furprizing 

 that the roots of this luxuriant vegetable (hould peri(h ia 

 common with the turnip ; but from other accounts which 

 we have received, we may conceive a hope that the Mangel 

 Wurzel, in a dry and healthy foil, is capable of refiiling the 

 influence of common degrees of froft, and that though the 

 accounts of its excellence, as food for cattle in general, are 

 not numerous, it will yet be found valuable for that pur- 

 pofe in many fituations. We efteem ourfclves much obliged 

 to Mr. Bromwich for his account of experiments condu(Sled 

 with fo much care and precifion : and if the plant in quef- 

 tion (hall be found but half as profitable in general for feed- 

 ing pigs, as it appears to have been to him, it will ultimately 

 t^iDk among crops of confequencc to the former. J 



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