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the bulb, they work their way outward to the fhell, 
and thus, with great facility, devour the whole, or 
nearly, fhell, fangs, and all. Without this method 
the feeding wotld be much more difficult, the bulb 
being coated with a hard ligneous fubftance, neceffary 
to its prefervation through the winter. Tegs, or 
one-year old fheep, wethers, and indeed all dry 
fheep, are preferably to be fed on this root; -and 
when it becomes neceflary to introduce couples, or 
ewes with lambs, thereon, a few fmall holes, calcu- 
jated for preventing the fheep, but letting the lambs 
through, to feed on the foliage of the field at large, 
muft be made in certain of the hurdles. The good 
effe&ts of this will foon be perceived in the lambs 
themfelves, while nothing could be better adapted 
for preferving the bulb, and preventing it from 
throwing out too liberally its juices into leaves 
and branches. 
Were a knowledge of the real properties of this 
plant generally diffufed, it would probably have the 
happieft effects in preventing in future fuch general 
fatality among fheep and lambs, as has this year 
taken place:—and were it univerfally underftood, 
that its {fpecific excellencies are not, as hitherto fup- 
pofed, and often afferted, merely refifting froft, and 
coming to perfeétion when turnips are all fpent; 
but that it afterwards, -alchough found, will be of 
very little ufe until the feafon arrives wherein little 
elfe can be had, and that it fhould hence be kept in 
referve 
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