3i8 EXPERIMENTS ON Part IIL 



" it to a dry place, where it fhotild be expofed to the fun and air 

 " for feveral days, to dry : then you may beat out the feed and put 

 " it up in bags, keeping it in a dry place until you ufe it. This 

 " feed is feldom elteemed very good after the firflr, or fecond year at 

 " mofl, but new feed is always preferred; nor will it grow after it 

 *' is more than two years old." 



Parfneps are another excellent, wholefome, and very nourifhino- 

 food for cattle. Their culture is the fame as that of carrots, with 

 which they may be fown on the fame ground; obferving, if you 

 would have the roots of either grow to their full lize, to thin them 

 fo as to leave a fpace of ten inches or a foot between each plant, and 

 to keep them clear from weeds by frequent hoeings. When the leaves 

 begin to decay, the roots may be dug up for ufe, and kept in fand, 

 in a dry place. Parfnep feeds feldom grow after they are above a 

 year old. 



Wc could wifli that M. Duhamel, or his corefpondents, had 

 tried the culture of parlley according to the new hufbandry, in which 

 there is no doubt of its fucceeding well, and proving of great benefit 

 to fheep. " The common parfley, fays Mr. Miller, is, by fome 

 ** fkilful perfons, cultivated in fields for the ufe of fheep ; it being 

 " a fovereign remedy to preferve them from the rot, provided they 

 •' are fed twice a week for two or three hours each time with this 

 *' herb : but hares and rabbets are fo fond of it that they will come 

 ** from a great diftance to feed upon it; and in countries where thefe 

 *' animals abound, they will deftroy it, if it is not very fecurely 

 ** fenced againft them : fo that whoever has a mind to have plenty 

 ** of hares in their fields, by cultivating parlley will draw all the 



" hares of the country to them. The beft time for fowing it in 



** the fields is about the middle or latter end of February : the 

 •*' ground fhould be made fine, and the feeds fown pretty thick, in 

 *• drills drawn about a foot afunder, that the ground may be kept 

 <* hoed between the drills, to dertroy the weeds, which, if permitted 

 <' to grow, will foon over-run the parfley. Two bufliels of feed 



** will fow one acre of land. The roots of the great garden- 



" parfley will grow, if fufficient room is given them, to the fize of 

 ** a middling parfnip, and are greatly efleemed by the I>utch for 

 ** their water fouches. They may alfo be boiled and eaten as young 

 *' carrots, and are very palatable and wholefome, efpecially for thofe 

 " who are troubled with the gravel. 



" The napus fyheJlriSi or wild navew, generally known by the 



*• name 



