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They life in this country three ot four 

 horfes at length in a plough, with a driver, 

 and do about an acre a day. The pro- 

 duel of a cow they reckon at 3 /. 



Shireivood forert was the firft large and 

 continued tract of ica/ie land that I have 

 met withfihce I left Hertforcljlnre. 



At Baii'try, hearing that Ly/ier, 



Ffq ; had feveral experiments in agricul- 

 ture of the modern kind, I defired to 

 view them, and his clerk mewed me 

 them in an obliging manner, and gave 

 me a very intelligent account of them. 

 Mr. Lyjler has cultivated cabbages as food 

 for cattle four years ; the fort he prefers is 

 the large Scotch cabbage ; he has raifed 

 them frequently to 16 and 20 11). weight, 

 which is a vaft fize. The ufes he gene- 

 rally applies them to, are the feeding of 

 cows both dry and milch ; the rearing of 

 young cattle which are exccfTively fond of 

 them, and the feeding of fheep. I viewed 

 the crop of this year, which made an ex- 

 cellent appearance ; it is of two acres in 

 rows, four feet afundcr and two feet from 

 plant to plant. Mr. Lyfier has the feed 

 fown the latter end of January, or the be- 

 ginning of February ; he ufed to tranfplant 

 them twice before they were fet out for a 

 crop in the field ; but this year he fet them 

 into the field direcli'y from the feed-bed ; 

 they were transplanted the middle of June^ 



but 



