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Year old calves eating 5 ftone a day, 

 during a winter of fix months, eat in the 

 whole, 5 ton 5 cwt. each. 



From hence any perfon, knowing the 

 quantity of his cabbages, may proportion 

 his flock to them : or knowing the number 

 of his iiock, may proportion his crop to 

 them. Such knowledge is true experience. 



But here are particularized fome points 

 before utterly unknown ; cabbages com- 

 pletely fatting oxen of 80 ftone! This I 

 never heard before : Beafts of that large 

 fize were ufually put to cabbages after a 

 fum^mer's grafs ; but here we find them put 

 to them lean. This is very remarkable ; 

 and proves, if any thing can, the great 

 importance of this food. 



One of the heifers put lean to the cab- 

 bages, was worth jufl 4/. ; flit it yielded 

 8/. 8 J-. It wViS 14 weeks fatting, and eat 

 (at 9 ftone a day) 5 tons 9 cwt. and 74//^, 

 of cabbages, and 4 cwt. of hay. 

 Profit on the heifer, ^f . 4 8 o 



Dedudt 4 cwt. of hay, at 2 j. 080 



Profit clear '- - - ;^. 4 



o 



This is the fum paid by 5 ton 9 cwt. of 

 cabbages; or 14^. ^ d. per ton; This is 

 one of the moft important pieces of in- 

 telligence that could be given : \Vould but 

 the cultivators of cabbages decide by fimilar 



experiments, 



