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seen of it ; and most persons have had abundant crops. 

 The leaves produce two or more crops in the seasons of 

 summer and autumn, and both leaves and roots are most 

 valuable for feeding milch cattle, and unlike Turnips or 

 the Brassica species, communicates no bad taste to the 

 milk, but much improves it with a very delicious flavour. 

 They are also allowed to be remarkably good for feeding 

 pigs. 



From the many instances which can be adduced, one 

 only is here necessary to point out the superior merits of 

 Mangel Wurzel :— Wolf M'Neil, Esq. of Bally morscan- 

 ton, near Dundalk, (a gentleman who has cultivated it to 

 the greatest per ection,) sowed one acre, from the leaves 

 of which he fed forty pigs through the seasons of last 

 summer and autumn ; after which he saved 84 tons of 

 roots, and upon these fed nine cows and five calves du- 

 ring the winter, and had upon the 22d April 1815, eight 

 tons remaining, exclusive of one hundred of roots, 

 which he transplanted for the purpose of preserving good 

 seed. This circumstance is in itself considered suffi- 

 cient, without bringing forward any more of the 

 many proots which could be adduced in its favour, 

 to completely establish the usefulness of the Man- 

 gel Wurzel. 



Culture, 



Time of sowing, months of April and May. — Pre- 

 pare a plot or field as for Turnips or Potatoes ; open two 

 drills with the plough, two feet apart, and put in a suffi- 

 cient quantity of dung, according to the state of the 

 ground ; then cover the dung with the double mould- 

 board plough at once, or the single plough at twice, by 



