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Article XXXIV. 

 On the Culture of Rape as Food for Cattle* 



TO THE SECRETARY, 

 STR, 



T Beg to trouble you with an account of an experi- 

 '*' ment on Rape treated as cabbage; to which I am 

 encouraged by obferving in your publication of 

 premiums for laft year, that your Society wifhed 

 the experiment made. In hopes that my poor mite 

 may not be unacceptable, I truft for your kindly 

 receiving this effort of 



Your very obedient fervant, 



THOMAS J. RAWSON. 



Glafsealy, Atby^ May i, 1790. 



HAVING from repeated fuccefsful experiments 

 on fowing Rape on wheat, bere, or barley Hubble, 

 (ploughed as foon as pofTible after reaping the crop) 

 as a fpring feed for fheep, determined to try its 

 ufes cultivated as cabbage, on the 28th of April* 

 l;ift, I had a plot prepared as for cabbage feed, and 



• The 28th of April is too early to fow the focdj about the 7tli 

 cr 10th of JMay will be the beft feafon, 



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