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double the quantity of Mangel-Wurzel from the 
two acres (befides the drafts which had been made 
from them) that I had of potatoes from the fix acres. 
My mode of packing them, was by drawing two 
furrows with a plough at four feet afunder; the 
mould from between which I threw to each fide, to 
form two little banks, which ftopt the cart wheels 
in backing, to fhoot the loads alternately on each 
fide, and a little help trimmed them into the form of 
a roof, which I covered witha little ftraw, and then 
with mould above a foot thick. This preferved 
them perfectly, except a few which were packed in 
a wet day, and which were mouldy on their out- 
fides, and fome few rotten. And |] had the fatis- 
faction to exhibit, toas many of my neighbours as I 
could colle& on the 17th of April, that my cows 
(which had been fo greedy of grafs, that the boy 
who drove them from the turnip-picce, which they 
had finifhed that morning, could not keep them 
from the hedges) on being turned into a piece of 
fine frefh rye-grafs, on which two barrows full of 
Mangel-Wurzel, and as many potatoes were thrown, 
did not eat the grafs till they were were both finifh- 
ed. My yard-man began by allowing eight cows 
five barrows of Mangel-Wurzel a day, weighing 
about 14olb. each, and no potatoes; this he found 
more than fufficient ; and as he was defirous of all 
the Mangel-Wurzel he could get for the fwine, 
(which abfolutely left potatoes untouched for two 
days 
