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jBvidently grows kin deft after turnips ; and 

 any foil which will bear them, is fuitable 

 for it. The ufual way is, to mow it in 

 June, and make it into hay. Two tons 

 upon an acre may be reckoned a medium- 

 crop. As its quality is nourifliing, it is 

 particularly good for all draft horfes, 

 oxen, fatting, and milch cattle j but not 

 fo much refpedled for faddle-horfes. 

 Sometimes it is mowed a fecond time, 

 late in the month of Augufh; but the hay 

 of this fecond crop is lefs in quantity, and 

 of an inferior quality to the former ; and 

 therefore, if the farmer be not in any 

 great want of hay, he will do well to 

 feed it, inilead of mowing it a fecond 

 time. 



When it is faved for feed, the cuftom 

 is, to feed it down clofe until the latter 

 end of May, and no longer ; which early 

 feed is a vaft advantage for ewes, lambs, 



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