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crops , the oats indifferent, and all the reft 

 failed. The cabbages, turneps, and po- 

 tatoes, were now compared -accurately at 

 home, each occupied an inclofure by itfelf, 

 and the object was to fee what would be the 

 refult in feeding meep at home, inftead of 

 fending them into the vale. 



The cabbages yielded, at the 1. s. d. 



flanding rate of payment, per 



acre I 8 6 



The turneps p 1 8 o 



The potatoes 2 3 p 



" The fheep that fed upon the cabbages 

 feemed rather to be in better order than 

 thofe from turneps, and thofe from potatoes 

 as good as from cabbages. One obfervation 

 they made, which they thought deferved 

 being attended to : it was the cafe of a fow 

 and pigs that had ftrayed from the ftables, 

 and having accefs to the three fields, fixed 

 to the potatoes, and there fupported herfelf 

 and pigs in fuch a manner, that the peafants 

 determined to try potatoes for hogs entirely. 



The 



