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is found to be very confidcrable. Theftoyer 

 (that is, the pulls and points of the draw 

 broken off in thrafning) is as acceptable to 

 them as hay ; and the tops of \hzftraw are 

 eaten with avidity, '* nearly equal to oat- 

 " ftraw better than wheat- ftraw." If it be 

 well got, the fmaller butts will be eaten up" 

 clean. The offal makes excellent litter for 

 the farm-yard ; and is ufeful for bottoms of 

 mows, flacks, &c. &c. * 



Setting fire to the whole in the field is a, 

 barbarifm which ought to be exploded. 



Objectionable, however, as the common 

 rriode of harvefting rape in this country un- 

 doubtedly is, it has, during time irnmemo- 

 tial, been implicitly adhered to (the inftanc'e 

 laft-mentioned only exceptcd) until this year 

 (1787), when an IMPROVEMENT has taken 

 place which bids fair to effect a revolution 

 in this department of the husbandry of the 

 Vale. 



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* If we confidertiic nature of fape, how nearltfit is' 

 allied to the turnep, and how grateful to cattle while in 

 a green ftatc, it is no wonder that ihepods ana ilm-r 

 parts of the ftcms fliould beatxeprabk to ihecu in a Jt.ue 

 of drvnefs, 



