Sow and plant nettles, says M. Garrene, a French savan, and all the sandbills in the south and the wastes in other parts of France will be converted into green and profitable fields. M. Garrene wonders that the world is so slow to learn the great economic value of this robust plant, which will grow everywhere. Raise your nettles, he says, and in the young tops thereof you will have a delicious, and early vegetable for your dinner-table, and abundance of early green food for your cattle. The milk of cows is improved by a diet of nettles, and the beef of cattle fed on nettles is superior to all other. Nettles, too, are of remarkable efficacy in restoring broken - down horses to vigour. And in commerce their value is great; for they can be treated as hemp, and spun into lines and ropes, and woven into cloth. When is a young lady " very like a whale!" when she's pouting.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 924, 8 February 1872, Page 3
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