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moft expenfive article will comparatively, with re- 
fpec to what is requifite at other times, be very 
trifling, and frequently none at all; while with the 
plant itfelf they appear to be fo entirely fatiated, 
as frequently after their meals to be feen for fome 
hours lying down, and in a very fingular manner 
compofing themfelves to fleep. So far is this per- 
manent bulb from requiring dry meat as a concomi- 
tant, or auxiliary, that if there happen to be a pond 
in the field, the fheep will frequently be feen drink- 
ing thereat; a fact feldom or never obfervable when, 
in the fpring months, they are feeding on any other 
green vegetable, or edible root. 
Finally, as a confirmation of the whole of thefe re- 
commendatory narratives, the writer, during twenty 
years practice, found the produce of an acre of thefe 
roots, uniformly, and on an average, adequate to the 
fupport of 70 fheep during four weeks of the moft 
hungry, the moft trying, and moft critical feafon in 
the year;—his land, at the prefent rate, worth about 
13s, an acre, and each acre producing between 7 
and 8000 plants, of about four pounds weight one 
with another. 
From the above valuable properties not having 
been fully afcertained, or detailed at length bee 
fore; and from trials, made chiefly in a more fugie 
‘tive tranfient way, wherein nothing appropriate feems 
to have been regarded, either with refpeé& to culture 
or time of expenditure; the plant, having frequently 
been 
