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It is much to be wi{hed they were univerfally en- 

 couraged. The different houfes of indullry in this 

 county having now adopted the ufe of them. 



The turnip-rooted cabbages you faw, are in 

 great perfedion, but referved until the latter part 

 of the fpring, when no other green vegetable can 

 be had. The cabbages were ufed during the lad 

 fnow, and weighed moft of them, after the lofs of 

 ^U their outward leaves, upwards of a flone each. 



I am, with the fincerefl: good wiflics. 



Your obedient humble fervant, 



THOMAS BEEVOR, 



IL'tbely Norfolk^ Jan. 28, 1786, 



Article XXXV. 

 0)1 River JVceds as a Manure. 



Gentlemen, 



AMONGST the variety of manures that have 

 been recommended to give a flimulus to the 

 vegetative principle in land, I do not recolle6l the 

 weeds of rivers to have been mentioned by any 

 \vriter on agriculture. Sea weeds have been found, 



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