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vip, after its firft introduction, was cultivated with 
fuceefs for upwards of thirty years together ona 
particular farm, before it crept over the hedge to 
the next;* while the potatoe, for culinary and other 
purpofes, it is well known has, at intervals, fhared a 
fimilar or worfe fate. Happily the value of the 
former is at length more juftly appreciated; and the 
latter, being found a delicacy at the tables of the 
‘rich, and having feveral times, and once about four 
years fince, been called in as an effectual preventative 
of famine; affording a competent fupport for our 
poor, when no other thing was to be obtained; we 
are now, with all the cares attending it, tolerably 
well reconciled to. 
In oppofition to the too prevalent inattention above- 
deferibed, there are many reafons that fhould dire& 
a fheep-mafter, on an improved upland tillage farm, 
to leave even his fine field of hay for an opportunity 
of putting in feafonably his turnip-rooted cabbage. 
His increafed crops of hay, grafs, vetches, turnips, 
&c. enabling him to fuftain, at all. other times, 
through the year, an enlarged ftock of animals, not 
only procured with great care and expence, but 
whofe frames having alfo been greatly extended from 
an ample fupply of thefe edibles, will become, as 
before obferved, the more fufceptible of injury from 
a temporary difcontinuance of them. Being driven 
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