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continued further to extend; while their qualities, 
even under immediate obfervation, have, perhaps, 
more than proportionably amended. And at this time 
to fuppofe that, in our prefent routine of manage- 
ment, nothing may be found in the vegetable world 
for fupplying the glaring deficiency, which is the 
fubje& of this paper, would probably be much more 
prepofterous than, after the firft inftance of the 
growth of turnips, to have difregarded a report of a 
green vegetable food having been difcovered in 
them, competent to the fupport of the then fheep- 
flocks through the dead of winter, nearly equal to 
that of grafs in fammer, However, it being now 
known and acknowledged, wherever the culture of 
thefe has prevailed, that until they become too much 
froft-bitten, they afford a moft nutritive food, and 
competent to every requifite purpofe; we have 
furely much greater reafon for encountering any 
difficulty or expence in furmounting our inconveni- 
ences, than our predeceflors; they having had an- 
nually a dead fix or feven months to contend with, 
during which no artificial fupport could be found’ 
for their flocks, but in the very expenfive article of 
hay; and of which the quantities they raifed, from 
their artificial graffes, could be in no wife equal to 
what we now command from our improved culture, 
of which that of turnips is the bafis; while we, 
getting, for the moft part, fmoothly and comfortably 
through the winter feafon, have only a month or fix 
. weeks 
