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crop as their parent; roots i I took feme of thofe 

 which had grown in the houfe, and planted them in 

 jny garden j which, although planted fo late as in 

 4he latter pait.of the momth of June, have groAyn 

 well, and afforded me feveral roots as large and good 

 as any of thofe grown this year in the field -, at tlii^ 

 my furprife has been the greater, becaufe the fets 

 had but a few eyes, and thofe were very fmall. If 

 this , experiment {l:^ould ever enable a poor man, 

 whofe (lock of |^otatoes has been much diminifhed 

 by the wants of himfelf and family, to find a fuf- 

 ficiency for his future crop, it cannot be deemed 

 wholly ufelefs. 



I have this year on my farm fome acres of the 

 Swedifh Turnip, called Ruta Baga, which notwith- 

 ftanding thedrynefs of ^fhe fummerhave grown to 

 a reafonable fize, weighing upon an average about 

 three pounds and a half each without their leaves : 

 this crop was, not fown until the 27th of June, 

 whereas had it been fown earlier, which the drought 

 prevented, I . am very certain the plants had been 

 much larger 5 as on thofe gentlemen's lands where 

 they were fown in May, the roots are at leaft one 

 third bigger. However, their want of fize never dj- 

 miniflies the crop fo much as is apprelicnded, if, at 

 ^he tiiije of hoeing them^ they ar<; left proportionably 



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