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 it, that if others are of a different opinion, 

 they may try the experiment. 



Mr. Lyjicr's clerk gave me one piece of 

 information, which was very, furprifmg 

 indeed ; That the butchers of that neigh- 

 bourhood prefer turnips that never were 

 hoed, to thofe that are managed with the 

 utmoft attention, and will give more mo- 

 ney for an acre, the apples of which are 

 not larger than a double fift, than for one 

 whofe products are as large as a peck loaf: 

 and their reafon for this ftrange preference 

 is this; cattle, they affert, when feeding 

 upon turnips in a field, bite large ones, 

 and if the flavour does not pleafe them, 

 ieave them for others, when the firft 

 prefently decay and are rotten ; but this 

 objection holds proportionally to all iized 

 turnips, fmall in fuch cafes will rot as 

 well as large ones ; but to aniwer fuch 

 ridiculous notions by reafoning is abfurd, 

 facts fpeak infinitely ftronger ; afk a Nor- 

 folk, a Suffolk, or an EJfex grazier, whe- 

 ther he has any objection to large turnips ? 

 Why do fome of them take the pains to 

 raife large ones to have the trouble of 

 flicing them to pieces ? Will ten tons of 

 a vegetable fat as many bean's as thirty 

 tons of the fame ? The Bd*wtry butchers 



muft be capital fools indeed ! and the 



farmers equally ridiculous, if fuch preju- 

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