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Art. XVII. 

 Mifcellaneous Remarks on National Improvements. 



[By an old Correfpondent.] 

 DEAR SIR, ' Glamorgan/hire. 



SINCE 1 had the pleafure of feeing you here, I 

 have enlarged my farm, which has been pretty 

 confiderable for above twenty years. And, that I 

 may not be confidered as a mere theorift, I will add, 

 that I have for near forty years had the care of fome 

 of the largefl eflates in this county* 



You faw fome acres of good mangel-wurzel near 

 my houfe, and I have in the fame ground (for the 

 conveniency of being near my yards and ox-fheds) 

 raifed crops equally good from my own feed feveral 

 years. The directions in the Abbe de Comerel's 

 book, tranflated by DhLetsom, are'very plain, and I 

 have always fucceeded. The excellence of this plant 

 is, that I have never known any infeft deftroy either 

 the root or the leaf, nor have I known the people 

 (leal them as they do cabbages, potatoes, and tur- 

 nips; fo that I can flack them out of doors, any time 

 before the frofl comes; and by fowing the feed ia 

 March, or the beginning of April, in rows, I never 

 mifcarry; but find enough where they are too thick 

 to fill up the vacancies, though I never find the tranf- 



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