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afcent of its fap. If this happily, from a feries of 
experiments, fhould be found to be the cafe, and that 
it may therein be found as appropriate to the fup- 
port of our fheep, from the beginning of March to 
the middle of April, as is the turnip-rooted cabbage, 
from thence to the latter end of May, it would pro- 
bably be a new and much more valuable difcovery 
refpecting it, than any that, with us, has hitherto 
been made. It is, however, obfervable of this plant, 
that its flefh is of an extremely rich and nutritive 
guality, even in autumn, and if not found to fucceed 
as above, might, in fome inftances, by certain appro- 
priate means be then, probably, houfed to advantage 
for this and other purpofes. If with a view to get- 
ting our fheep comfortably and in an uniform way 
through the winter and fpring feafons, the turnip- 
rooted cabbage fhould be adopted, it will be one 
point gained, and probably the moft effential; as the 
common turnip will, preferably to every other mat- 
ter, be ufed through the earlier part of thofe feafons, 
and will not unfrequently carry fheep fed thereon to 
the proper feafon of the plant in queftion, which 
will for a certainty complete the work, and intro- 
duce them to grafs, vetches, &c. 
The writer deems it neceflary only further to be 
ferve, that being acquainted with three or four theep- 
matters, who having fome years ago adopted the 
culture of the turnip-rooted cabbage, and who ha- 
ving not by choice been withont it any feafon fincey 
he 
