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criminated and fairly ftated, as to have left the cul- 

 tivators without fome confiderable fhare of difap^^ 

 pointment, in the proper ufe and value of thenn. 

 To do this juftly, I feel rayfelf fo very incompetent, 

 that I (hall leave the tafk to others better qualified, 

 and of more leifure, refting contented with having 

 furnifhed the hint only. To explain my meaning, 

 I would, for inftance, have it mentioned among 

 their other properties, (if by experience it fhould be 

 found to be fo,) that the Mangel- Wurzel will not 

 endure our frofts, if left in the ground during the 

 winter;— that the Turnip-rooted Cabbages willVefiit 

 the fevereft frofts, but are attended with very great 

 trouble and expence to get them out of the earthy 

 that when taken up they require to be cut to enable 

 the cattle to eat them, and fhould be ufed only the 

 laft of all other green food, which they, will well 

 fupply, until there is a fufEciency of grafs -, — that 

 the Ruta-Baga plants, though they appear to afford 

 the fweeteft and moft nutritive food of all the roots, 

 ^nd though the value of the root has been found to 

 be little or nothing diminifhed, even after it has 

 borne its feed, yet will it not abide the feverity of 

 froft much if at all better than the common turnip;* 

 to which may be added, that one confiderable ad- 

 vantage attendant upon them, as well as the Turnip- 

 rooted Cabbages, i« the vaft abundance of food they 



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