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to both whereof I have done ample justice, have en- 

 abled me, in the same season, to make a comparative 

 estimate between them and the scarcity root. My ex- 

 perience was always greatly in favour of the latter. 

 There is more saccharine quality, and of course, more 

 nutrition, in these, than in any other root, within my 

 knowledge. I have long ceased to use either turnips 

 or potatoes for Jatting cattle or swine. The small pota« 

 toes, however, are profitably devoted to store cattle or 

 hogs. — A fatting bullock will eat one half his weight of 

 turfiips, in 24 hours. Of the scarcity roof, I am per- 

 suaded, he will not consume any thing like this pro- 

 portion. — The greatest portion of the turnips passes 

 oft' in urine. If potatoes are applied to the support of 

 stock on farms, it must be by those who have no mar- 

 ket near them. The intelligent Mr. Arthur Young y 

 has recently given a table of calculations of the value 

 of potatoes, used in England, as food for various spe- 

 cies of stock. I have it not now at hand ; but when I 

 perused it, I was perfecly satisfied, that our Indian corn 

 could be more profitably applied to y^f^^m^ either cat- 

 tle or swine, at the cost, per bushel, of four times his 

 average value of the same quantity of potatoes. Al- 

 though I decidedly prefer the scarcity root to the pota- 

 toe, for the food of cattle, sheep or swine, I do not 

 mean to depreciate this estimable product. But more 

 is expected from it, than I have found justifiable. 

 The same observation would apply in England, to the 

 mangel ivurtzel ; which had there its day of rage ; and 

 fell into neglect, because too great expectations con- 

 cerning it, had been held out. I shall avoid saying 

 more than my own experience warrants. — The purity 



