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time it had had peas; but having rooted up the 
pavement of his ftye, he wafted fo many, that I 
ordered him to be killed before he could have re- 
ceived any material benefit from the peas. I had 
one quarter collared fora trial, and had it been 
boiled enough, it would have been as good as any 
I ever bought. I made hams of the legs, and fold 
the remainder to my labourers, at half the current 
price of pork; and they all declared they never ate 
{weeter meat, and did not with it fatter. Were it 
practicable to fold pigs like fheep, and compel 
them to depofit their dung regularly, I am con- 
vinced that feeding it on the ground by them, 
would enrich the land to a very high degree; al- 
though I think they exhauft the foil more than 
turnips, if they are not fed upon the ground; but 
the richnefs they add to the muck in the farm- 
yard, by the {wine or cattle eating them, muft be 
ultimately felt in the farm, although its value can- 
not be exactly ftated. 
The fituation of my farm does not make it con- 
venient to me to keep fheep, or I would have fed 
fome with iton the ground thisyear. I fhould only ~ 
fear its being too rich for ewes in lamb. I know 
it is very valuable for weaned lambs, at a time when 
in a dry fummer the farmers are often diftreffed 
what to do with them. 
As to the culture of Mangel-Wurzel, the beft 
time for fowing the feed muft depend upon the 
weather: 
