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\>p, rioli, dry, sound, friable, sandy loam, 

 ploughed as deeply as possible, towards the end of 

 autumn, and left for the frost to pulverize and 

 sweeten. About the 12th of this month, if the 

 weather be favourable, it will be proper to sow and 

 harrow in five pounds of seed per acre, which will 

 roi iie up in about six weeks. In order that the 

 young farmer may sec what inducement there is to 

 apply so good a soil to tbis use, I shall here lay 

 before him a short detail of advantages, given by a 

 considerable farmer in Surrey, which was commu- 

 nicated to the Society of Arts. 



" I will now proceed to relate the use I made of this 

 root. In the first place, I put up 16 hogs a fatten- 

 ing upon them. The method I took in giving them 

 to the hogs, was throwing the parsnips on the ground 

 whole. This I continued for about a month, when 

 finding my hogs grow heavy, I observed they did 

 not go on so well with them as at first. Upon this 

 I boiled the parsnips, and made wash of them : 

 thickening the wash with half a bushel of barley- 

 meal every day. I gave it them in a trough, and 

 continued this method for two months, when I 

 killed them, and found them to be very good meat ; 

 weighing from 28 to 33 stone per hog. One of 

 them, being very large, weighed 53 stone. The 

 neat value of my hogs, when killed, amounted to 

 5'1\. 17s. ^d. The whole expence of my barley 

 meal with which I thickened the wash, amounted 

 to 3l. 18s. Od. ; of the firing to boil them, at (xl. 

 per day, ll. 10.-?, ; of a boy to look after them for 



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