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Hitherto the attention of the farmer has been too much confined to the com-

mon herbaceous plants that{pring

up in

the fields, and are ufually eaten by our do-

meftic animals in their native ftate.—lIs it

not probable, that there may be many plants that do not feem at firft fight to be reducible to this clafs, that might be pro- fitably cultivated as a crop for food to fome of our domeftic animals?—If fo,

What are they?

It is not neceffary here to tak of cabbages, coleworts, turnips, the cole- feed plant,&c. which have been long known to be good kinds of food for cattle and fheep, although they have only of late been generally cultivated as a field-crop by the Britith farmer.—-I would with here to turn the attention of the reader to the examination of fome other plants that

have not been commonly thought capable

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