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and faithfully related, may chance to throw fomc 

 additional light upon the fubje6b, I have ventured 

 to fend you, in the annexed paper,* the refult of 

 one which was made here laft fummer ; however, 

 to avoid prolixity, I have left the corollaries to be 

 drawn from it, to thofc gentlemen who may con- 

 defcend to compare my account with the firll three 

 experiments related by the very able and ingenious 

 Dodor, and printed in the laft volume of the Soci- 

 ety's valuable Papers. 



I hope you will, before the receipt of this, have 

 obtained from one or more of your numerous cor- 

 refpondents, fome account of the ufe, produce, and 

 value, of the mowing cabbages^ as well as of the 

 Roota Bagay of each of which I had laft fpring a 

 fmall parcel of feed fent me, which was fown, and 

 has produced feveral plants. Some of the mowing 

 cabbages were cut down three times, and grew into 

 head again fo fpeedily, that had I had leifure to have 

 attended to them, I doubt not but that the cuttings 

 might have been repeated j but as there is never on 

 my farm any want of frefti vegetable food for catde 

 in the fummer, unlefs I can find them condnue to 

 vegetate in like manner during the winter (which 

 mine have not done) or very early in the fpring, I 

 think they will not prgve to me, or any one under 

 the like circumftances, an objed of much value. 



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