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were the best which I had done first ; they 

 were somewhat larger at the time of pull- 

 ing ; they were allowed to be the best crop 

 ever seen in America, and of as good a 

 quality. New land turnips are allowed to 

 be the best for the table : but these were 

 equal to any new land turnip : and from 

 this I discovered that if turnips grow quick, 

 they will be sweet. Their tops being large, 

 I gave them to my cows, and some turnips 

 amongst them : nor did the milk taste at all 

 disagreeable from the turnip feed. Then 

 we made butter from the cream of that milk, 

 and found the butter equally good as from 

 any other food. I kept some of it four 

 weeks, to see if any turnip taste would come 

 on ; but I never could discover any : and, 

 should the same process remove the un- 

 pleasant taste that butter usually has in 

 England, when cows are fed on turnips, 

 it would prove of great value to the public 

 in general, especially in Norfolk, and other 

 turnip counties. I do not imagine it arises 

 from the plaster, but from a very simple 



