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fubflantial for butter. I have heard of a dairy 

 of cows in Hampfhire rotted by feeding upon 

 potatoes. As to giving them to horfes I fliould 

 do it, in a certain cafe, with the utmoft plea- 

 fure ; that is, when I had nothing better to 

 give them. I mufl declare it often excites 

 both my fenfibihty and my rifibihty, to read 

 the wonderful accounts of certain experiment- 

 ers in feeding brute and human cattle ; one of 

 thefe adepts will make nothing of taking a 

 ftore-pig from the yard, and fatting him to 

 marrov/ in three weeks, whilft I am fuch a 

 ftupid bungler, as to be eight or ten doing 

 fuch a bufmefs, with the befl feed. 



It has occurred to my obfervation, that the 

 turnips, cabbages, and other vegetable pro- 

 du6lions upon poor foils, are by no means fo 

 folid and nutritious as thofe grown upon richer 

 lands. Thus, in fome counties, bullocks will 

 be made thorough fat with turnips or cab- 

 bages, which vegetables, produced upon poor 

 land, I have known to fail of that effeft, even 

 with the affiftance of good hay ; and the beafts 

 have afterwards been obliged to be made up 

 with corn, nor had it ever happened otherwife 

 to the owners of them. I have heard much 

 of milking cows upon cabbages and flraw; I 

 put mine upon that diet, the vegetables coming 

 off a middling foil,but the beafts fcoured and fell 

 away to that degree, that I was under the ne- 



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