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that is, cut into Jliccs •, or more generally, 

 though perhaps lefseligibl)', into quarUrSy with 

 a faiall hedging-bill, or other chopper, upon a 

 narrow board or (lool, with a baflcet under- 

 neath to catch the pieces a3 they are chopt off. 

 ■J'he turnep in this operation is held by the 

 top ; which, when wholly difengaged from the 

 root, except the coarfe part immediately about 

 the crowr, is thrown afidc for the ftore-cattle. 

 The tap-root and bottom-rind are iliced off 

 vviih the fiifl llroke, and fuffered to drop on 

 one fide the fKep •, fo that the fatting-cattle, in 

 this cafe, have only the prime part of the 

 bulb. 



This accounts for the quick progrefs which 

 " fhcJ-buUocks" fometimes make ; efpecially 

 in cold weather. Baton account of the extraorr 

 dinary attendance they, in this cafe, require, — 

 not only in cutting the turneps, but in littering 

 and cleaningout their ftalh, — befides the checks 

 which they are liable to receive in clofe muggy 

 weather— -the pracftice is feldom followed b7 

 large farmer3 in i/:is Diftritl i unlcfs to pufli 

 forward fome particular individuals. 



Among little farmers, who have leifure and 



inclination to tend their ov/n fheds, the prac^ 



> tig? 



