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through the Winter, which is an object yet 

 fpore important than the other. 



He has tried many different forts of po r 

 tatoes, and prefers the long red fort, which 

 is called the Alface potatoe ; he has tried 

 cattle with this, and others, at the fame 

 time, and found they always preferred ij; 

 it has alfo this advantage, that the crops of 

 pf it are ufually very plentiful. 



In his culture of turneps, he has aimed 

 principally at getting them to as great a fize 

 as pofiible by means of manuring, and has 

 fucceedcd fo far, as to produce fome of ^jlb. 

 weight. 



The grafTes he has principally confined 

 himfelf to are lucern, fainfoine, clover, and 

 cfparcet, which is a fort of fainfoine, but 

 inferior. He is fonder of clover than of 

 any ; he finds, that by giving the plants 

 j-oom, and keeping them clean, it is a laft> 

 ing plant : he has compared it in tranfplan- 

 tation and fetting at various diftances, and 

 finds, that at one foot fquare from plant 

 to plant, the produce is at the rate of eight 

 loads of hay an acre, which exceeds his 

 lucern, but he admits, that cattle prefer 

 $he lucern, either green or in hay; fain- 

 foine 



