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drawn, and the cabbages are cut and carried td an 

 inclofure, cither at the barn-door or at the comcf 

 of the field, made with bufli faggots, and well lit- 

 tered with ftraw or hauhnj and I am certain that 

 ninety acres, one-third or perhaps half ploughed, 

 will maintain, by means 'of turnips and artificial 

 graflcs, at Icaft as many cattle as the whole would 



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grafs. 



Cabbages make bad-tafled butter, but are ex- 

 cellent for fattening catde, having an aftringent 

 quality fo oppofite to that of the turnip, that fix 

 weeks are favcd in the fattening a beaft; in which 

 inftance not only the faving of time, but of feed 

 alfo, is of iio inconfidcrable confequence to the 

 farmer. 



The fort principally raifed is the tallow -loaf, or 

 drum-head cabbage, but it being too tender to 

 bear Iharp froft, I planted fome of this fort and 

 the common purple cabbage ufed for pickling (it 

 being the hardeft I know of) alternately, and when 

 the feed-pods were perfedly formed, I cut dowa 

 the purple, ^nd left the other for feed. This had 

 the dc fired effed, and produced a mixt flock of 

 a deep-green colour with purple veins, retaining 

 the fize of the drum-head, and acquiring the hard- 

 nefs of the purple* 



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