lke 5 a 
Articte XXII. 
Account of Experiment on Turnip-Cabbage for 
the Society's Premium in 1793. 
[TO THE SECRETARY. |] 
SIR, 
AM making this year, a larger experiment than 
any I have before made, with a view to afcer- 
tain the value of the turnip-cabbage, as a fpring 
food for fheep and cattle, and (as I mentioned be- 
fore to you) as a candidate for the fociety’s premium 
on that head. As this experiment cannot yet be 
confidered as complete, I fhall referve myfelf for a 
minute account of it toa futuretime. In the mean 
while, as the profpect of its fuccefs is extremely 
flattering, I am induced to ftate a few particulars 
againft the next meeting, with the hope of encou- 
raging many others, to make fimilar experiments 
upon this plant in the enfuing year. 
A piece of wheat ftubbs, between two and three 
acres, lying in a fmall common field, the foila 
free-ftone grit, worth about eight fhillings per acre, 
was twice ploughed, cleaned, and dunged. It was 
then ridged up in two-bout ridges, part having 
their centers three feet diftant from each other, and 
part only two feer. The plants were all fet out on 
the middle of the ridges, and at the diftance of 
three feet from each other in the rows; but at 
three 
