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succulence.. The juice of it, however, is watery, and far enough from nutritious. Hogs fatten nei- ther so fast with it,(and I have tried many hun- dred quarters for that purpose) nor is the flesh so

firm as that faited upon corn. I have expended

it in large quantities, ground, with hard working- horses, both draught and saddle, but the difference of price by no means compensated for its inferi- ority to oats and beans, and besides, it did not always agree; we sometimes fancied it had a kind of stupifying effect. I tried it with a stock of se- veral hundred head of poultry, and it was in the same degree inferior, both with the fatting and Jaying stock. I do not hear that it.is very highly prized in the distillery. In fine, Brank is surely valuable upon land that will grow nothing else, and is produced with small expence, but when ready, its best application is to the market.

My last crop of Brank was in 1791, upon four acres of clayey loam, of moderate fertility, but lately old meadow. A bushel per acre was sown the first week in June; the green crop most luxuriant, but being late, it was got up wet, and the stack at the same time left without thatch, of course the sample was spoiled, and what was worse, the product did not amount to, two quar- ters per acre, not worth, as feed, fourteen shil- lings per quarter. it has been said, that this grain being black, cannot be discoloured by wet, which is by no means a practical remark, since its discolour consists in the loss of its fine black; beside which, the grain feels cold and damp, to the great injury of the sample: wet, or dry, the only

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