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Cole seed, Tares, Mangel Wurtzel. 



Extract of a letter from E. Barclay, dated Southward 

 15th April, 1815, to R. Peters. 



" I mean to adopt the plan lately introduced, to raise 

 two grain crops by sowing Cole seed and turnips direct- 

 ly after clearing my tares,* which will be fit for use in 

 September, when the land may be prepared for wheat. 

 In one of my letters, I reported my having obtained from 

 Flanders, last spring, a few seed of a new variety of Man- 

 gel Wurtzel, being of a deep orange colour, not before 

 grown or seen with us, of which I had many fine plants, 

 from six to eighteen pounds. The roots are now plant- 

 ed again, to preserve the seed amongst us, of which I 

 hope to send you a sample of the seed of this year, as 

 by an experiment it has been proved to be more saccha- 

 rine than the common red, or rather rose colour which 

 Mr. Davy esteems much beyond the white." 



" I wrote you that 1 have two stables of fat oxen now 

 ready for sale, of the Scots Galloway breed, from ninety 

 to a "hundred stone, (of eight pounds,) which is the size 

 most preferred in town, of which, five oxen were fatten- 

 ed solely by Mangel Wurtzel and hay, with complete 

 success ; the other fifteen on linseed and bran, crushed 

 between iron rollers, which fully answers our expectation, 

 and is highly economical. " 



* Vetches*— vicia sativa, Lin. See Gleanings of Husbandry, 

 \rt. Vetch. N°t e fy « Member, 



