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founded with turnips ; not even with that 

 large fpecies of them, which has been long 

 known and cultivated in Germany, but 

 which now is generally neglecled, on ac- 

 count of the inconveniencies that I have 

 pointed out. 



This excellent forage will afford fubfiftence 

 to all kinds of cattle, and efpecially at that 

 time when grafs, fo ufeful and neceffary to 

 cattle, is yet fcarce i andjt will be feen, by 

 their vigour and their fleeknefs, how much it 

 has contributed to their health. 



The Root of Scarcity is never difliked by 

 cattle ; they eat it always with the fame 

 avidity, and the fame pleafure - 3 and they 

 have nothings fear from thofe unhappy ac- 

 cidents, which fometimes refult from the 

 ufe of turnips. How much is it to be wilhed 

 that thefe united advantages, which are found- 

 ed upon conflant experience, may deftroy that 

 diftruft, and thofe prejudices, which this new 

 Root may, perhaps, at firfi infpire among 

 the French for it is only in fome provinces 

 of Germany, in which it is cultivated with 



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