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in some degree fortified, from having- heard that one 

 extraordinarti root of Mangel Wurzel, grown by John 

 Brownrigg, Esq. and exhibited last October at Camo- 

 lin, weighed 26ilbs. without leaf or Jibve. VSTien 

 giving the roots to your cattle, wash them, cut oft' 

 the fibres, give them one or two chops ^viXh a spade 

 or shovel, and occasionally sprinkle salt on them. 



No. XII. 



Wealth to the turnip, British farmers owe, 

 Tho' here too few its real value know, 

 Then countrymen, adopt what I advise 

 And grow, like British farmers, rich and wise, 



A'aluable as Mangel Wurzel, on good loamy land 

 niiquestionably is, I should he much better pleaded to 

 see a general introduction of turnip crops among you, 

 because a vast proportion of our soil is unsuited to the 

 fonner, though certain of prodining the latter in abun- 

 dance. I have seen good turnip crops sown without 

 fresh manure, where Mangel Wurzel had previously 

 failed. The light sandy soil of this hiUy county, under 

 the present system of forming, is of little value to 

 landlord or tenant ; but if sown with turnips it would 

 be far otherwise. The soil of Norfolk (in England) 

 is naturally as bad as any townland in this county ; 

 but the universal prevalence of turnip husbandry in 

 regular rotation, has rendered the one highly fertile, 

 while the total neglect of it in the other, leaves it 

 i-oinparutively barren. 



Turnips delight in a loose soil ; there they can be 

 raised to the greatest perfection, and with the least 

 hazard of miscarrying ; at the same time there is no 

 soil that will not bear turnips when well prepared and 

 manured i reclaimed moors, with, the ashes of the 



