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ground, when fully grown, would be

inconceivably great. Cattle are alfo extremely fond of the Toots as well as the tops of the Carraway

plant*, which might‘on fome occafions

be employed for the fame purpofes. Beets+' were formerly more cultivated

in our gardens than at prefent. ne

he Neh to be chiefly valued as a food

or cattle, ay carry abundance of fuc- ent leaves, which are readily eaten by attle s—but sheet roots, which ufed al- ways to be thrown away, would be the principal crop as a food for cattle. Thetfe roots contain a larger Proportion of fac- charine juice than any other plont com- mon with us. An ounce of gtained{ugar has been extraGed from a pound of tl

ne green root: and it is wel] known, that

1= lal a ¥> nothing fattens. animals in general fo quickly as plants that contain lugar in

large proportions 1

pa oy S Cc

i ,

icem to fhow a ecreater fondnefs for the reots than any other

at ep part of many * Corum carui.+ Beta vi ulearis. t The root of{carcity which has attracted the atten- tention of the public a good deal fince th

written, belongs to this clafs of plants.

e above was

plants,

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