148 REYNOLDS* CABBAGE-TURNIP. [MARCH. 



them long ago. But these vegetables are now in a 

 fine flourishing state, quite sound and good ; well 

 tasted top and bottom : better food cannot be 

 desired for horned cattle and sheep. It seem; 

 indeed, the very thing long sought for (namely), 

 good spring food. 



" This is certain, my sheep are now thrivii 

 beyond all expectation ; whilst other flocks, in 

 neral, having no such provision, are almost starv 

 to death for want of sustenance. 



" If what is here asserted and proved by ex] 

 ricnce, will not induce people to raise these roots, 

 know not what will." 



In a letter from Mr. Reynolds, dated the 15th Ja- 

 nuary, read to the Society, he speaks thus of the pro- 

 duce of the turnip-rooted cabbage. " Tins is certain, 

 large crops have been obtained within the two last 

 years in several counties. Their product have risen 

 from 25 to 35 ton per acre; and if my memory serve 

 me right, there are two accounts from Nottinghai 

 and York, as high as 44 tons. Kent and Sus: 

 have obtained near 50 tons ; but one gentlenun 

 in Surrey has outdone all that I have yet heard of. 

 This plantation, and that no small one, produced 

 upwards of 56 tons per acre, in 177O. I have this 

 well attested ; and that many of his single roots 

 weighed 14lb. each. This may seem incredible 

 to some, but it is not so to me in the least. For 

 my shepherd brought me in one single root, on 

 the 4th of May, l/7:'>, that, when cleansed., weighed 

 !?lb. the most extraordinary plant of this kind ever 



beheld. 





