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any other. It will keep (at New York) in the open air, in 

 stacks four feet wide and high, covered with straw and six 

 inches of earth, a small hole being left in the top for ventila 

 tion, until April, and is then of great value to new milch- 

 cows and ewes with lamb. 



I particularly recommend the cultivation of the sugar and 

 mangel-wurzel beets to cottage-farming gentlemen, who wish 

 to keep a small dairy with a limited extent of land. 



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