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for any particular purpofe, or which way he could confume any particular plant to the greateft advantage.

ry.

Ir is probable that fome plants, which may perhaps be pofleffed of the fame qua- lities when green as when in a dry ftate, may neverthelefs be more properly and

economically confumed, by gutting them

green, and employing them in that ftate, than by allowing them te be made into hay; and, in fome cafes, perhaps, the re- verfe of thig may be the cafe-—Wanted, a lift of each of thefe claffes of plants as

-above.

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Broad clover, and many other fuccu- lent plants, are with fome difficulty made into hay; and, in all probability, may be confumed much more profitably as a green than as a dry fodder: becaufe, as foon as they are cut over, the plants quickly vegetate afrefh during the fummer-feafon; and, by being repeatedly cut over, pro- duce