PARSNIPS. 



FEB. 



three months, at 6cl. per clay, 2l. 5s. which sums, 

 added to the expcnces attending the parsnips, prime 

 cost of the hogs, &c. amounts in the whole to 

 Sol. so that my proht upon this article only, is 17!.. 

 l6s. 8d. which remains to be carried to the ac- 

 count of the parsnips. After my hogs were killed 

 I kept four dairy cows upon the remainder of the 

 parsnips for three months, which, at Is. 6d. per 

 week, amounted to 3l. 12s.; and this sum, added 

 to the 171. l6s. 8d. 'before mentioned, makes the 

 neat profit on the one acre of parsnips to be 

 2ll. 8s. 7d. 



te I must observe, that giving my dairy cows the 

 parsnips, answered my purpose greatly, by increas- 

 ing their milk, and making the butter much richer 

 and finer than turnips or carrots, which I had given 

 them long before. The manner in which I gav 

 the parsnips was, cutting them in pice 



" Finding the parsnips agree with my hogs and 

 cows so well last year, I now determined to give 

 them to my horses ; and having five that were 

 making up for sale, I begun with them by giving 

 them a very few the first week. I observed then 

 that they agreed with them extremely well, and I 

 therefore gave them a larger quantity, which made 

 them tlirhi' very fast, and determined me to con- 

 tinue giving them the parsnips, which saved me a 

 great deal of hay, as I found they had occasion for 

 very little of it. I kept them in this manner for 

 ten weeks, when I sent them to Mr. Bever's repo- 

 sitory, where they were sold for 40 guineas each 



' horse. 





