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Article XXX. 

 On Mifcellaneous topics of Hujhandry, 



TO THE SECRETARY. 

 SIR> 



Have a pleafure in commuhicaring to the Bath 

 Society every thing that occurs to me in farm- 

 ing, in hopes that part of it may by th6m be thought 

 of ufe to the public. 



I informed you that I found raw potatoes as 

 nouriihing for hogs as boiled; the expence and 

 trouble of boiling would be too much to be fol- 

 lowed on a large fcale. The great uncertainty of 

 having a good crop of turnips, made me laft year 

 plant eight acres with zploughy with which I turned 

 them out of the ground in Odtober, and carted them 

 into one end of a barn rather in a wet bad ftate, as 

 I was in a hurry to fow wheat in the land, and there 

 Was no profpeft of dry weather. I think I had 60 

 or 70 tons, which I could have Tent to Briftol for 

 aboiit 15s. per ton, and probably have neated about 

 aos. per ton, if I had fold them; but 1 preferred 

 trying, the experiment of feeding my ftock with 

 them, and accordingly I preferved them with once 

 turning till January, and then began to give them 

 "^ith hay to my fat oxen, working oxen, tows, work- 

 ing 



