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he had 14 Iriih acres of turnips, which kept 50 

 working, and fattening oxen, and dairy cows, 

 befides 60 fat fheep ; fome of the oxen were 

 fold fat from them, at from 1 7I. to 20I. each ; 

 the Lancashire breed that had been worked. 

 The fame year he had one acre of carrots, which 

 he applied to feeding horfes, and inftead of giv- 

 ing 4 barrels of oats a week, they had only one, 

 the reft being deducted on account of the roots. 

 That in England, he fed his whole fhid with 

 them, nor would the horfes touch an oat, while 

 they could get carrots. Wafhing he found fo 

 expenfive, that to lefTen it, he put them in baf- 

 kets in a ftream, and this faved half; the foil 

 not light. They were left in the ground, and 

 drawn in the winter, as wanted. 



LordFarnham mentioned one circumftance of 

 turnips, new to me, which was his feeding his 

 horfes in Norfolk with them. His brood mares, 

 and hacks, of which he had a great number, 

 ran in the park at Hnnfton, with his bullocks, 

 that were fattening on turnips, and they follow- 

 ed the carts as eagerly as the N be a ft s ; had no 

 other food, and did perfectly well on them. 

 His Lordihip has made great improvements in 

 fome of his lands by means of hollow drain- 

 ing. Very wet clays, over-run with ruflies and 

 other aquatic rubbifh, he has converted into 

 dry found healthy paftures. The principal drains 

 are filled with ftones, the leffer ones with fod. 



In the breed of cattle he has been equally at- 

 tentive, having been at a confiderable expenfe 

 to procure the very beflLancafhircs; and what 



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