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come one of the mod fattening plants the 

 earth produces, were it properly cultivated. 

 When taken young, and cut or broken, it 

 produces fonnething like cream; and I have 

 obferved many animals to like it in preference 

 to every other plant now in vogue. Sheep 

 when in clovers, &c. will feed upon it fo 

 greedily as to eat the very roots. Pigs like- 

 wife prefer it to almofh any other green food. 

 Kabbits will breed more fpeedily when fed 

 with fow-thiftles, than with any other food I 

 know of, except dandelion ; which is of the fame 

 nature, and is now fold in Covent-Garden mar- 

 ket to the breeders of tamiC rabbits, to makq 

 them take the buck m.ore readily. A man of 

 my acquaintance, who was allowed better Ikill 

 with ftallions than the general part of man- 

 kind, ufed to fearch for fow-thillles and give 

 to his horfe to make him ferve mares more 

 readily. When he could not procure fow- 

 thiftlesj he fed him with new-laid eggs and 

 milk, or cream if he could get it ; but prefer- 

 red fow-thiftles or dandelion. 



We have a well-known and decifive proof 

 of the nutritive properties of the fow-thiftle, 



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