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money; but I am f^retty certain, that an acre of land' 

 planted as above, would well maintain twenty ftore 

 pigs from fix to eight months, and in that time 

 their improvement could not be lefs than 14 or 

 15s. a pig. The labour of preparing this article of 

 food would indeed be a confiderable deduction from 

 the fum, whatever might be the amount. How- 

 ever, at all events, it muft be allowed to be a very 

 valuable article of culture, and well worthy the 

 hufbandman*s attention. 



I am. Sir, your's, &c. 



JOSEPH WIMPEY. 



Bockhamptony Aug, 10, 1790. 



P. S, I obferve Sir Thomas Beevor's account of 

 the Mangel- Wurzel (Art. 36. vol. 5,) is by no means 

 fo favourable as the above. More than half of his 

 plants were not found and fit for ufe in March, 

 Whereas mine, efpecially thofe left in the ground, 

 were not injured at all by the cold of the winter. 

 The laft winter, it is true, was uncommonly mild, 

 but I fear, indeed, that they cannot bear the feve- 

 rity of a hard one. From Sir Thomas's account in 

 a former paper, of the fuperior fize of his, I ihould 



apprehend 



