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thing about any preference to old or new wheat, but merely 

 recommend the proper feafon for fowing, by taking a hint 

 from nature, inferring, that lefs feed will anfwer the purpofe 

 when the proper feafon is attended to. 



fd) Dr. Temple fays, " it ought to be a very good acre, 

 *' and of good quality to do this. In the ftalls it may do it." 



(«) Mr. Baillie fays, " many parts, both of England and 

 " Scotland, practice a much better." I wifh for the advan- 

 tage of Norfolk, that this gentleman had been more particular 

 in pointing out thofe particular parts, and till he does it, I muft 

 doubt the fact ; for, if he is right, I have taken a great deal of 

 unnecellary pains in defcribing and holding out the Norfolk 

 i'vftem of turnips, as deferving imitation by the reft of Eng- 

 land. 



(/) Lord Rofeberry remarks, that "rolling in the night 

 " has been ufed with fuccefs on turnips, when in their firft 

 "leaf." 



(g) Sir Thomas Beevor further obferves, that " the beft 

 "farmers, near Norwich, efpecially where the lands are rich 

 "and moift, feed their bullocks chiefly in yards, which have 

 " Iheds erected in them, under which binns and racks are 

 "placed, whereby the cattle, kept dry and warm, thrive 

 " fafter with lefs food, and with lefs wafte of hay and fodder." 

 In this method I entirely agree with Sir Thomas, and think 

 the cheapeft and beft way of fattening a bullock, is to give 

 him plenty of turnips, in cribs, in an open yard, with plenty of 

 barley or oat ftraw, in a rack under a fhed, where he cart 

 take fhelter when the weather is bad. A beaft treated in this 

 way, will do as well, having his liberty with plenty of tur- 

 nips and ftraw, as he will, confined in a flail with turnips 

 and hay. 



(A) To 



