SECT. III.—FODDER FROM LEAVES AND ROOTS.

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s uit particular lands. Attention however should, in all cases, be paidto the plants growing wild in the neighbouring pastures, or in similar■'oils, and the greater portion used of those which are observed to thrivebest.

In certain instances I have mentioned particular quantities of seedsto be mixed with others ; but in general I have sated how much itw ould require to sow an acre with each kind separately; from which aperson may form a criterion, when several sorts are used, as to whatQuantity of each sort should be adopted. Taking into view, therefore,'hat nothing but a mixture of proper kinds of Grasses, &c. will makeSood pasturage, and that our knowledge is very imperfect on thishead at the present season, we must advise that particular attention bePaid to the subject, or little good can be hoped for from all our en-deavours.

Sect. III.— FODDER FROM LEAVES AND ROOTS.

The student in agriculture will find in this department a wide field° r speculation, which, although it has been greatly improved during'he last century, still affords much room fur experiments.

During the last thirty-five years I have had opportunity of observingthe great difference irr the quantity of cattle brought to one of our' a rgest beast-markets in the south of England ; and it is well known"'at this has increased in a ratio of more than double ; and I am in.formed by a worthy and truly honourable prelate, who has observed'he same for twenty-live years previously, that it has nearly qua-drupled. I have also made it my business, as a subject of curiosity,'° inquire if the increase at other markets has been the same, an j froma '' accounts I am convinced of the affirmative. Now as we have am-'''e proofs from the statistical accounts of our husbandry, that less'^rn has not been grown irr the same period, we shall naturally be itr-jjuoed to give the merit of this increase to the introduction of the Turnip''"sbandry, which, although it is now become so general, is, compara-tively speaking, but in its infancy; and it is from that branch of our'Sfriculture that has sprung the culture of the great variety of fodder

the description which 1 am now about to explain.

And here it may not prove amiss to observe to the botanical student,*Ould he hereafter he destined to travel, that by making himself thus' Hc luainted with the natitre of such vegetables, be may have it in

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Power to render great benefit to society by the introduction of

'hers of still superior virtues, for the u-e both of man and the brute^•reatiun. When Sir Walter Haleigh undertook his expedition to South, '"erica, the object of which failed, he had the good fortune from hisJ**fe f ur botany to render to his country, and to the world at large, a°re essential service, by the introduction or one single vegetable, than