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they appear to have all the advantages which be- 
long to the turnip-rooted cabbage, without being 
fo very hard as to injure the teeth of the fheep.* 
They give butter a fine rich yellow colour, when 
the cows are fed with them, and fome flavour with 
that colour, though not near fo ftrong as the Nor- 
folk turnips. Bullocks fat confiderably fafter upon 
them than upon the Norfolk. They will keep, by 
being ftacked, and the tops cut off when they firft 
begin to fhoot, until the latter end of May. 
But I fuppofe by this time your volume is printed, 
and thefe hints, or rather obfervations, will prove 
of no fervice this year,t except to a few of your 
correfpondents, to whom you may fafely recom- 
mend them. 
But, fir, the purport of this letter is to flate to 
your Society a plan which I have in agitation, the 
_moft likely to promote the general agricultural in- 
terefts of the country. Nothing impedes the intro- 
duétion of the new hufbandry, and the ufe of the 
moft improved inftruments, fo much as the obftinacy 
of the workmen. _ To furmount this difficulty feems 
a great object, and it appears to me, that by taking 
eight clever aétive young men under my tuition 
* This objection againft the Turnip-rooted Cabbage feems to 
be obyiated by Mr. TucGweE 1, in this volume.—Ep. 
+. The prefs being open, this letter was of courfe admitted—and 
admitted with the warm approbation of the Committee, efpecially 
as to the projected plan of Farming Education.—Ep. 
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