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report from that county. I have also received private accounts of the great value of the plant, upon cold clays, where it has been held far su- perior to the Scotch cabbage, both for duration, in the most perfect state, in defiance of the severest frosts, even to the middle of May, and for its more substantial nutriment. jected by various cultivators, for the following reasons: inferiority of quantity, compared with cabbages or Furnips; difficulty of getting up the roots, and of disengaging them from the earth, and their excessive hardness andstalkiness. These dis- advantages, however, seem now to be forgotten, as will be seen by the following particulars, which I have transcribed(being without experience of the culture of this root) from the Nottinghamshire report.“Phe Ruta-Baga should be sown about a month sooner than other Turnips, upon good rich sand, well manured, and a fine tiJth, about two pounds of seed broad cast upon an acre. Set out nine inches asunder, and hoed three times in all, expence, seven shillings and sixpence per acre. In November their use began, when they were given to horses, bullocks, sheep, and hogs, which preferred them to common turnips. They lost their leaves entirely by the frost, without the roots being at all affected: nor were they injured even by being broken, or bitten by cattle. The method of giving them to horses is, to cut off the tap-root, to wash and cut them roughly, with a perpendicu- lar hoe, giving them directly without keeping At first, they were given to the horses with corn, but afterwards with hay only,

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It had been formerly re-