fos. ta 
may be preferved for ufe to fo late a period, by only 
laying them on the ground in a ftack-yard, or any 
odd corner. 
Their fattening quality has, TI believe, been pro- 
ved upon a large fcale. I have been convinced of 
it, by every thing I have given it to; but can only 
fpeak to having killed one heifer, fattened intirely 
with that in the days, and hay by nights. This 
beaft, for a particular reafon, I was obliged to dry, 
and as foon as fhe was dry I tied her up, which was 
on the 15th of laft O@ober; and the butcher faid, 
whenever I killed her, he could only allow me the 
price of cow beef for her: he killed her on the 7th 
of December, and without my faying any thing to 
him, he allowed me 4s. 6d. a ftone, (the beft price 
of beef at the time here) the meat was fo remark- 
ably fweet, that he obferved it to ‘me as foon as he 
had tafted it, and when I fent for the beft piece he 
had left to makea prefent of, after what was wanted 
for my own family had been ordered, he requefted 
me to fpare him as much as I could for his other 
cuftomers: had I known fooner how good it would 
prove, I fhould have diftributed more of it to'my 
friends. 
But were the whole utility of Mangel-Wurzel 
reduced to feeding fwine, it would ftill be very 
valuable. My yardman affures me that a brawn I 
killed this winter, had lived wholly upon it, till 
within a few days of its being killed—for which 
time 
