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communicative, as well as the mod ingenious and 

 indefatigable experimental agriculturift in this 

 county, has promifed to fend me two quarts of 

 the feed, part of that which is ordered for his own 

 ufej fo that if the next winter Ihould prove a fe- 

 vere one, there will then have been a fufficient trial 

 of their merit, to determine whether they can be 

 cultivated with more advantage to the farmer than 

 any of the other winter efculents. 



The few mowing cabbages which I have re- 

 ferved for feed, abound in the moft vigorous leaves, 

 which, if after having been eaten down by fheep or 

 cattle, they would fprout again as freely and fre- 

 quently as after they have been .mown down, would 

 certainly prove a moft profitable crop j but this, I 

 believe, is yet to be tried. 



The great relief which the poor in this neigh- 

 bourhood have received, and continue to receive, 

 from the ufe of potatoes, during that price of corn 

 which has made it almoft beyond their ability to 

 purchafe, will not readily be forgotten by them -, the 

 applications I have received this laft feed or fetting 

 Xitne for thofe roots, is wonderful, and have ex- 

 baufted a ftore of about fourfcore facks, which I had 

 remaining, after having planted my own quantity. 



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