Vrur2el, which will yield 30 tons an acre (exclufivC 

 of the kaves) of good food, which may be houfcd 

 like potatoes; and wheat fown in the land, which 

 is certainly a great advantage, to avoid the neceflity 

 of naked or barren fiimmer fallows. 



I had laft year about 50 tons an acre of Drumhead 

 cabbages, which will yield great plenty irt December, 

 January, and February, and they may be fucceeded 

 by mangel-wurzel and potatoes, and thefe by roota- 

 baga, and turnip-rooted cabbage, which bear froft 

 much better than common turnips, 



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Sheep are fhy of food they are not ufed to eat, 

 but hunger will bring them to eat moft things fit 

 for them. They are remarkably fond of roota-baga^ 

 which are lefs fpungy and more folid and fweet than 

 the common turnip in April. I have this year kept 

 them very good in the ground till I had a good bite 

 of vetches, clover, and rye-grafs i the leaf is fmooth 

 like the cabbage tribe, and the flieep are very fond 

 of them. 



When I was writing this, I found in your fccond 

 volume, p. 262, a letter from Mr. Wimpey, recom- 

 mending the houfeing of fheep and lambs in winter, 

 to avoid a kind of v/ind-colic, which kills a great 



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