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dependance which can be had on the fupply of 

 food for their cattle in the fpring from a crop of 

 common turnips, cither after a fevcre and frofty 

 winter, or after a very mild and warm one, (which 

 laft conftanrly caufes fo early a growth of their tops 

 as to render both them and the roots of little or no 

 worth) and they would then, 1 conceive, rarely fail 

 to have fuch a proportion of the turnip- rooted cab- 

 bages growing on their lands, as would afford and 

 enfure them a full and excellent provifion for their 

 catde for about three or four weeks in the laft part 

 of the fpring. A greater quantity of them I do 

 not wilh to recommend, as the confumption of 

 them, particularly when drawn, and carried from 

 off the land, is certainly attended with rather more 

 trouble and expence than that of common turnips, 

 efpecially if the foil be wet and heavy ^ — the beft 

 for them, and that on which mine grew, was a dry, 

 found, mixed foil, worth i6s. per acre, at the dil- 

 tance of fcven miles from Norwich. 



Though the very accurate, numerous, and valu- 

 able experiments of Dr. Anderjon on Potatoes, may 

 feem to have fo fully inftrufled the publick in every 

 particular ncceflary and ufeful refpeding the culture 

 of them, as to render any farther information or 

 communication on that head unneceflaryi yet as 

 frcfh and repeated experiments, carefully made, 



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