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Doncnjler is a clean, well built town ; 

 ths llreets broad and well paved. The 

 town hall is a handfome building, the 

 pillars very elegant, but the door in a 

 heavy and an ugly tafte. A little out of 



the town Wharton, Efq; has two 



cr three fields of experiments, which L 

 examined with much pleafure ; particu- 

 larly three or four acres of cabbages, very 

 large and fine for their age ; they had not 

 been planted above fix weeks, and their 

 leaves almoft met ; the rows were three 

 feet afunder, and the plants two between 

 each ; but this diftance was evidently too 

 fmall, as the horfe-hoe muff, be fliut out 

 long before the wetnefs of the winter 

 would render it neceflary to (lop. The 

 plantation was very clean from weeds, hav- 

 ing been hand-hoed once or twice. Mr. 

 Wharton has tried cabbages feveral years, 

 and found them of excellent ufe in feeding 

 all forts of cattle, particularly fatting beafts. 

 They are greatly preferred to turnips for 

 the latter ufe ; it is reckoned that two acres 

 will completely fat three large beafts: I 

 was likewife informed, that they will laft 

 late into the fpring, even to the time of 

 turning out to grafs. This product is very 

 great, and particularly for a fandy foil ; 

 cabbages I fhould apprehend to require much 

 ftronger land. As I gained thefe pieces of 

 information of a neighbouring farmer, 



I was 



