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 each other, every cabbage takes up eight 

 fuperficial feet ; and as there are 43,560 

 feet In an acre, there are confequently 5445 

 cabbages. This number, at 24/^. />^r cabbage, 

 gives 58 tons, 6 cwt. for the amount of an 

 acre; which is beyond all doubt a very 

 confiderable produce. 



Mr. Tinnier has found from experiment 

 that the improvement of oxen of 80 ftone, 

 by fatting four months on cabbages, amounts 

 Upon an average to 5 /. \os. Some he has 

 put up lean, but generally in good flefh. 

 According to the experiment abovemen- 

 tioned of an ox of that weight, eating 210 

 lb. in 24 hours, the quantity in four months 

 would be 1 1 tons 5 cwt. That is, an acre 

 would fat five oxen, and leave above two 

 tons of cabbages to fpare. And at 5 /. i o j-. 

 an ox, this is 27 /. 10/. -per acre. The five 

 beafts, at 7 lb. of hay per day per head, 

 will eat in the four months one ton 1 7 cwt. 

 Say two tons, this at 30 j. a ton, is 3/. and 

 deduded from 27/. yos. leaves 24/. los. 



for the produd of the cabbages. Thus 



far the fa6t; now for the curiofity of fuch 

 as from fiippofition would fix upon different 

 data^ let us calculate the value upon dif- 

 ferent rules. 



Suppofe tjie ox to take five months to 

 make the above improvement of 5 /. \o s. he 

 will, in that cafe, eat 14 tons; and an acre 

 will fat four oxen, and leave a furplus of 



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