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might require them, and at a season when such feed is particu- 

 larly desirable. The great objection to them, the difficulty of 

 getting them oat of the ground, may be in a great measure ob- 

 viated by sowing them on ridges, so that when they are to be 

 raised, by passing a plough near them the roots will be so much 

 uncovered that they may be drawn out by the hand. Whether 

 tliey gain or lose anything in nutritiousaess by remaining in the 

 ground, chemical analysis, or experiments in the use of them, 

 mast determine. Theie is no vegetable within my knowledge 

 of which cattle seem more fond. 



In English husbandry, the cultivation of vegetables for stock 

 makes an essential element. Labor, with the English, is much 

 cheaper than with us ; and their cultivation is much more exact 

 and minute than our habits would permit us to submit to. But 

 especially, they have not our Indian corn, one of the richest veg- 

 etable products which the earth yields ; which is so simple and 

 easy of cultivation and likewise of appropriation, and at the 

 same time, under the best culture, yields so large an amount of 

 the most nutritious food for man and beast, and where its prod- 

 uce is well managed returns so much to the soil, that it is ex- 

 tremely difficult to persuade our farmers that any substitute is 

 to be preferred to it. 



XV. Particular Results. — Facts are in general so inte- 

 resting and so important, that I am always desirous of record- 

 ing them, leaving it to others to make such inferences from them 

 as they may deem proper. My principal solicitude is, that they 

 should be well attested, and of such a character as to suggest 

 useful instruction to others. They are the only infallible teach- 

 ers and their lessons cannot be controverted. It may be safely 

 asserted that there is nothing which has heen done which can- 

 not be done again ; and under the same circumstances and influ- 

 ences, the same results will follow. These established truihs 

 render facts of so much importance, and make them the safest 

 of all teachers. 



Example 1. — Management of seven and a half acres of land 



