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Article XIII. 

 On Mangel' PFurzel, and other crops for Feeding CattU. 



TO THE SECRETARY. 

 DEAR SIR> 



1AM forry and furprized to read Dr. J. Anderfon's 

 letter in your 5th vol. p. 146, depreciating the 

 root of Scarcity. It is very clear he had not the 

 true fort, as he fays he bought it at a common 

 feed (hop. I have never yet been able to buy un- 

 mixed feed at any Ihopi always finding a great 

 proportion of red and green beet ; therefore I fhall 

 always raife my own feed, which requires very little 

 trouble. Dr. Lettfom*s defcription and account of 

 the true fort is very accurate, but it is not worth 

 while for a great farmer to gather the leaves; and 

 it is very doubtful whether the root will increafe 

 more by taking away fome of the leaves; if they 

 fall and rot on the ground, they will preferve moif- 

 ture, and be of fervice there. But the great queftion 

 is as to the weight and value of the roots, for feed- 

 ing horfes, cattle, fheep, and hogs, or any of them, 

 and whether they have any, and what advantage over 

 the plants and roots before in ufe. This is a very 

 copious fubjed, and I have not time to write fully 

 on every part of it, 



Doftor 



