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cfFe6l upon the cattle which fed on them. I could 

 therefore only try whether they would be eaten or 

 rejedled by cows, bullocks, and fheepi and whe- 

 ther, in cafe they were left in the ground, they would 

 fo well endure the viciflitudes of frofl and thaw, 

 through the winter, as to furnifh the farmer with a 

 certain and plentiful fupply of food in the fpring. 

 With refpe(5l to the firft obje6l of my trials, the re- 

 port I have to make is, that I found all my cows, 

 bullocks, and fheep,- would, after two or three days, 

 feed as readily uprn them as on turnips or any 

 other food; but with regard to the latter objedt, I 

 cannot fay the refult was fo favourable as I could 

 have wifhed, and did expedl; for, notwithftanding 

 the mildnefs of the weather through the whole of 

 the laft winter, and the different means I ufed for 

 the prefervation of the roots, by covering fome of 

 them lightly with earth ; others with draw, and 

 leaving others in the ilate in which they had grown; 

 I did not find half of them found or fit for ufe in 

 the month of March. Now if this Ihould have 

 been the cafe with other crops, and they be not 

 found able to refifl: the power of the frofl, whilfl 

 ftanding yi the field, 1 apprehend they will never 

 anfwer the farmer's purpofe as a winter food for 

 cattle upon any large fcale, fince there could be 

 . very few men found who could fpare time to pull 

 up the producl of from twenty to one, two, or three 



hundred 



