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[T. I. p. 231] in four-sided oblong heaps, to dry. 

 Their height was 6 quarters, or 3 English feet, and the 

 breadth the same, but some of them were 3J ells long, 

 7 English feet, others double as long, or 7 ells, 14 English 

 feet. In digging up the roots they had been so careful 

 sa noga, that among these heaps there lay a great 

 many fibres of the roots, whose length was not over 6 

 inches, and thickness not greater than a quill pen. These 

 roots thus arranged were sold as fuel to those who lived 

 some English miles round about. The twigs of the trees 

 were carefully collected, cut into lengths of 6 inches and 

 less, and bound in bundles, to sell in the same way to those 

 who had not themselves any access to fuel. The Swedish 

 wood vendors ought to consider this. 



Rag, hvartil den sas och brukas. 



Rye, what it is sown and used for. 



An old farmer told me that they did not sow Rye 

 here as food for people, but that it is sown in the 

 autumn to be used the following spring, in April, as food 

 for sheep, after they have first eaten up the turnips on 

 the turnip-land, Rofianden. The sheep are then 

 turned on to the rye-gratten, pa Rag-bradden, to 

 gratten on it, till it becomes so short that they can 

 find no more to eat. Some farmers afterwards leave 

 the rye to stand and grow, and when it has become 

 ripe, cut it, but most plough up the earth on which it 

 has grown, and prepare it for wheat seed, when the 

 sheep's dung, together with the rye-gratten, rag-brodden, 

 becomes an excellent manure. 



Rofvors ratta ans. The right way to treat Turnips. 



Turnips are much sown here in England, as food for 

 people as well as for all kinds of cattle, such as cows, 



