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“fituations, when and where zo other virid food can 
be relied on; and even that expenfive article hay 
will frequently, in dry weather, become difgufting to 
them. ‘Then it is that the/e may be had recourfe to, 
and depended on, for lifting our fheep flocks in a 
refpectable way to grafs; then it is that thefe, asa 
dernier refort, will be found adequate to’ every ufe- 
ful purpofe; while, in the mean time, their peculiar 
properties, as under-mentioned, feem pointedly to 
indicate them the appropriate and good gift of Pro- 
vidence, as a refource for fo critical, fo contingent, 
fo diftreffing an interval. 
In tafte and confiftence much refembling the ker- 
nel’of the cocoa-nut, their juices are more oily and 
lefs fucculent than thofe of any other root employed 
for agricultural purpofes; and are, probably, in a 
~fimilar degree more nutritive than any. They not 
only in this appear appropriate to the particular fea- 
fon, but, if given to fheep /ooner in the winter, will 
“be found comparatively ufelefs, frequently injurious, 
and fometimes deleterious. While a few warm days 
will, early in the fpring, fet the juices of all other 
vegetables in motion, as preparatory only to future 
fupplies, thofe of the turnip-rooted cabbage, retain- 
ing their original Lapland habits, remain invincibly 
dormant, motionlefs, and as it were, referved for our 
“intervening ufe and relief. 
About the middle of April (fooner or later, how- 
ever, as the fpring may-be more or lefs forward) 
they 
