FRANCE. 



fb as to make a very pretty regular appear- 

 ance. M. Prefaint, however, read me the 

 minutes of moft of them, and begged I 

 would tranfcribe whatever J thought pro- 

 per. This would have been too long a 

 work ; however, he gave me, among*many 

 others, the following particulars, with an 

 account of his motives and deligns of form- 

 ing thefe experiments : 



He faid, that as the husbandry of corn 

 was very well underflood, and generally 

 practifed in France, he had bent his atten- 

 tion towards objects which were neither the 

 one nor the other; but, on the contrary, 

 very much neglected, which was the agri- 

 culture of thofe plants, which were parti- 

 cularly adapted to feeding cattle ; of thefe 

 he tried experiments on roots for their 

 Wintei's fupport, and on grafles for that of 

 Summer ; that of the former, he had par- 

 ticularly attended to carrots, parfnips, a'nd 

 potatoes, all of which were very valuable 

 for cattle ; but the culture of them not well 

 known in France : upon carrots fcvcral ex- 

 periments were comparative. 



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