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I rest on the assurances of others, and not my own expe- rience,"when I Say, that Scotch kale is perhaps the most valuable Succedaneum yet discovered to Supply the want of early grasses, and that it is t9 be wished, its merits were more generally known. 1 apprehend, one cause of its not being in more common cultivation, is, that like turnips, remaining ull late in April or May on the ground, which is to be sown with barley, it throws back the Seediug time, and thereby materially injures the following erop.'Vo obviate thisdificulty in part, It is the annual practice of Some intelligent farmers in this county, to reserve.a Small inclosure,of turnips or cole- Seed, purposely for Sheep-feed in April and May, and willingly give up this piece of land, and the crop it ought to have borve, to this necessary Service,

„1 think it possible to overcome this difficulty in another way, which Shall at one and the Same time yield a Supply of food to cattle at the most critical period, and not occasion the produce of one inch of land to be lost to their owner.

Permit me, Mr. Editor, to lay before your readers, the following plan, which I am now myself pursuing, and which I have great hopes will be tried upon a larger Scale than I have it in my power to do. To hear it has been 80, and with suc- cess, by any of your correspondents,(particularly F. S. and Agricola Northumbriensis, whose mode of culture it Seems more immediately to fall in with, will be very gratifying to me.

From an observation[ made, in the month of Febtuary, 1804, upon some plants of bore-cole in my garden, of the Purple Sort, which had resisted the Severity'of the winter in 2 manner which surprised me,(for on examination every leaf was as perfect and undecayed as in Summer) I was induced, the following March, to try a few plants in the feld where my turnips were to be sown. 1 planted tbem out on 1wo-bout ridges, two feet from row to row, with intervals of twenty inches. They were twice hand-hoed, and the furrows moulded vp by a double breast plough. The produce was large, and Proved to me in the last Spring of most essential Service during the time they lasted,(I have aid, I planted but a zmall quantity at that time) wben I turned a few ewes and lambs among them. No food could have pushed the Jlambs on faster, or to all appearance to have been sweeter or more agreeable to their palate. Here it was I found the dificulty already pointed out. While my Sheep were enjoying their dish of greens, the season for Sowing barley went by, and 1 was obliged to 50w the piece of land (üve roods only) with turnips instead of corn,