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conftant fupply may be kept up, from the time cattle 

 are honied, until grafs is ready for them in fpring; that, 

 which is planted in fpring, will be ready for ufe in No- 

 vember or December; that, which is planted later, for 

 the fucceeding months, at which time the firfl cut will 

 be ready to produce a crop of fprouts: the hardieft 

 kinds feem to be the borecole, and the green and red 

 curled ; for milch cows they are a mod fuperior food, 

 giving the butter a tafte and colour equal to the finefl 

 grafs. Rape is alfo of great confequence, from the 

 quantity of nutritious food it affords to cattle and fheep, 

 and from its thriving in foils where other plants of the 

 braffica tribe are not productive; befides, it will anfwer 

 when fet out at a much later period of the year than 

 any other, ad might always fucceed the early dug 

 potatoes, and be cleared from the ground in time to 

 fow barley. However advantageous the cultivation of 

 thefe vegetables may be to the real farmer, they would, 

 jf properly attended to, be ftill more beneficial to the 

 holder of a few acres; for, with a fupply of green food 

 for his one or two cows in winter, and a patch of 

 clover to mow in fummer, he might have a conftant 

 refource in milk and butter for his family or the mar- 

 ket, and an increasing fund of manure afforded by his 

 cattle kept in the flail with a fufficiency of food, inftead 

 of turning them out to trample upon his land in the 

 moft improper feafon, and to fcatter at random about 



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