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> The improved comb will deaf three tiines the 

 quantity in a given time, as c'aa be dbne by the 

 method pradtifed in Devonfhire; which ought to 

 be conlidered as fufficient encouragement to make 

 trial of the experiment. 



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 Article LV. '-,-?f^': 



Falue of Turnip-Rooied Cabbage, iis a Spring Crop. 



[By Sir Thomas Beevor, bart. to the Secretary.] 



My good Frieady • zirfi 3- 



Y turnip-rooted cabbages are now, in high per- 



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fediion. I have about three acres left, with 

 which I am feeding twenty-two bullocks intended 

 for .'fattening this fummer; feventccn cows, two 

 bulls, four young cattle, and one hUndred and ten 

 Iheep, bcfides thirty horfes, which partake largely 

 of them. I hope and expect they will yet lad near 

 a fortnight more, by which time I doubt not but I 

 iliall have a full and plentiful bite of grafs for all 

 my flock. In order to afcertain in fome degree 

 the quantity of food they produced, I carefully fe- 

 leded fome of them, and fome of the common 

 turnips; and having girted each of them with as 

 much accuracy as poflible, I found the turnip- 

 rooted 



