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bages on them, and to compare them with 

 an equal number taken at the fame time, 

 and lent in the ufual manner to turneps, 

 which were hired in the vale for them : 

 this experiment being efteemed a very im- 

 portant one, they gave great attention to it. 

 The refult was, that ten acres of cabbages 

 fed four hundred fheep from the firft day of 

 December to the laft day of February ; four 

 hundred fent into the vale during that time 

 to turneps, eat twenty acres, and came 

 home in inferior order to thofe which had 

 {laid on cabbages. This trial gave the cab^ 

 bages more than the value of two acres of 

 vale turneps, or 305. befides the many ad- 

 vantages of being at home. 



" The next feafon frefh pieces of land 

 were inclofed, drained, pared, and the fur- 

 face burnt, as before ; and being ploughed, 

 were thrown into divifions, part for cab- 

 bages, part for turneps, part for potatoes, 

 and part for carrots ; other divifions were 

 alfo fown with rye, buck-wheat, millet, 

 maiz, and oats. The refult was different 

 from the laft year's improvement ; the cab- 

 bages fucceedcd well, as before j but the 

 turneps and potatoes were alfo excellent 

 Z 3 crops, 



