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being young, would be in Danger 

 of being deftroyed, either by the>r 

 trampling upon them, or their pull- 

 ing them out of the Ground: but 

 Sheep will be of Service to the Roots 

 by dunging the Ground, provided 

 they do not eut it too clofe, fo as to 

 endanger the Crown of the Roots. 



The Beginning of February, the 

 Ground between the Roots lhould, 

 be again ilirred with the Hoe- 

 plough, to encourage them to moot 

 again ; but in doing of this you 

 lhould be careful not to injure the 

 Crown of the Roots, upon which 

 the Cuds are at that time very tur- 

 gid, and ready to pufli. With this 

 Management, if the Soil be warm, 

 by the Beginning of March the 

 Shoots will be five or fix Inches 

 high ; when, if you are in want of 

 Fodder, you may feed it down till 

 a Week in Abril : after which it 

 Ihould be fufTered to grow for a 

 Crop, which will be fit to cut the 

 Beginning of 'June ; when you 

 mould obferve to get it off the 

 Ground as focn as polFible, and Uir 

 the Ground again with the Plough, 

 which will foi vvard the Plants fhoot- 

 ing again ; fo that by the Middle or 

 Latter-end of July there will be an- 

 other Crop fit to cut, which mull be 

 managed as before : after which, it 

 mould be fed down again in Au- 

 tumn ; and as the Roots by this 

 time will have taken deep Hold in 

 the Ground, fo there wiil be little 

 Danger of hurting them, if you 

 fhould turn in larger Cattle ; but 

 you muft always obferve not to Puf- 

 fer them to remain after the Roots 

 have done mooting, left they ihould 

 eat down the Crown of the Roots 

 below the Buds ; which would con- 

 fidently damage, if not deilroy 

 them. 



In this manner you may continue 

 •onfiantly to have two Crops to cut, 



and two Feedings upon this Plant : 

 and in good Seafons there may be 

 three Crops cut ? and two Feeding?; 

 which will be a great Improvement, 

 efpecially as this Plant will grow up- 

 on dry barren Soils, where Grafs 

 will come to little, and be of great 

 Ufe in dry Summers, when Grafs is 

 often burnt up. And as it is an early 

 Plant in the Spring, fo it will be of 

 great Service when Fodder falls {hort 

 at that Seafon ; when it will be fit 

 10 feed at Ieaft a Month before Grafs 

 or Clover; for I have had this Plant 

 eight Inches by the tenth of March , 

 at which time the Grafs in the fame 

 Place has fcarcely been one Inch 

 high. 



That the Cold will not injure this 

 Plant, I am fully fatisfied ; for in 

 the very cold Winter Anno 1728-9. 

 I had fome Roots of this Plant 

 which were dug up in October, and 

 laid upon the Ground in the open 

 Air till the Beginning of March ; 

 when I planted them ag:in, and 

 they mot out very vigorously foon 

 after; nay, even while they lay up- 

 on the Ground, they llruck out 

 Fibres from the Underfide of the 

 Roots, and had begun to (hoot green 

 from the Crown of the Roots. But 

 that Wet will deftroy the Roots, 

 I am fully convinced ; for I fowed 

 a little of the Seed upon a moilt Spot 

 of Ground for a Trial, which came 

 up very well, and fiouriihed exceed- 

 ingly during the Summer - feafon ; 

 but in Winter, when the great Rains 

 fell, the Roots began to rot at Bot- 

 tom, and before the Spring were 

 mod of them deftroyed. 



The belt Places to procure the 

 Seed from, are Sivi/zerfovJ, and the 

 Northern Parts of France, which 

 fucceed better with us than that 

 which comes from a more Southern 

 Climate : but this Seed may be fav< -\ 

 in England in grc*U Plenty i in ord-'. 



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