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November put two hundred large wethers into an 

 inclofure of thirteen acres of light land, which had 

 been eaten bare, and began to give them the rape^ 

 they immediately took to it with eagernefs, and in 

 three days not a fheep of the whole but would 

 attack the carter for his breakfaftj I continued to 

 give it in profufion without hay or any other food, 

 and it not only kept, but very much pufhed for- 

 ward the 200 fheep until the ift of January. I 

 then began with the five acres of turnips, which 

 (with the help of a quantity of hay) did not laft the 

 fheep more than feven weeks, which evidently 

 fhews that one acre of rape was equal to three acres 

 of turnips, altho' they were as good a crop as I ever 

 faw -y and had the rape been planted in three-feet 

 rows (the manner I now purpofe to treat it) and 

 properly earthed, I have no doubt it would have 

 been, if pofTible, much greater. I kept in a walled 

 yard twenty porkers from the firfl of September to 

 the firft of January on the under leaves; they as 

 well as poultry of all kinds arc exceedingly fond of 

 it. I tried fome Scotch cabbage, in the fame fitu- 

 ation of the rape, but they did not average more 

 than feven pounds per head i evidently rape will 

 flourifli where a cabbage would not exift; and 

 drought, which is the bane of cabbage, will not 

 aiFe6b it. The numberlefs advantages of introdu- 



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