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keep cows in plentiful as well as fweet milfe 

 all the winter : Thefe two ufes are peculiar 

 to cabbages, and fuch an application of them 

 muft confequently make a greater return, 

 than a ufe in which other fpecies of food 

 rival them. 



Thofe who have been ufed to the enor- 

 mous expence of wintering cattle on hay, 

 will eafily believe, that 9 x. a ton for cab- 

 bages can by no means be an adequate price; 

 the very proportion on comparifon with hay 

 is finking. And as to the turneps, the com- 

 parifon is yet clearer. It before appeared, 

 that the average value of turneps in the 

 north of England, that is, the fame country 

 the cabbages are all cultivated in, is 3/. is. 6d. 

 per acre : Now from the attentive manner 

 in which I viewed as well as weighed thofe 

 at Kiplin, that fine and rich turnep foil, I 

 was well convinced the average weight was 

 not above five tons, which is better than 

 1 2 j. per ton ; now the fuperiority of cab- 

 bages to turneps is abfolutely fixed by the 

 preceding intelligence 5 thofe cultivators who 

 think the contrary, bearing no proportion to 

 their antagonifts ; confequently cabbages are 

 of much more value than 1 2 s. per ton, or 

 probably double the amount I have calcu- 

 lated them at : Which circumftance muft 

 certainly convince every one, that cabbages 

 are, in thefe calculations, much underva- 

 lued -, and for the ufe of fuch as may be of 



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