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fumed, and are frequently left an ‘incumbrance on 
the foil; this, among many others, is a proof of how 
little knowledge of the {pecific and valuable pro- 
perties of this plant has hitherto been acquired. It 
is generally known, where the plant has been culti- 
vated, that its roots are fanged, and numerous; 
while few, it feems, are aware, that thefe fangs are 
equally fweet and nutritious with the bulb itfelf; and 
that-the fheep left to feleé&t them, when treated as 
hereafter defcribed, will all be feen well doing while 
there is an untouched fang to be found. If at the 
end of the feafon a quantity of roots are left an in- 
cumbrance, it only proves that the fheep fed thereon 
had, by fo much, more given them than they 
wanted; and that more ftock fhould have been - 
brought on the field. 
After experiencing for awhile many of the afore- 
mentioned difafters, the writer, early in life, fet him- 
felf carneftly about difcovering that great defidera- 
tum—a fpring-feed for fheep; and after trying every 
plant that appeared to ftand forward for pre- 
eminence in the cafe, viz. Scatch Drum-head Cab- 
bage, large Red Cabbage, American Sugar-Loaf 
Cabbage, Turnip Cabbage, Borecole, Black Brocola, 
Choux-de-Milan, &c. &c. found them all appro- 
priately ufeful; but neither, in any wife, to come in 
competition with the turnip-rooted cabbage, for the 
purpofe above-mentioned, namely, a permanent and 
{table fupport for fheep in fevere feafons, and critical 
fituations, 
