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wonder at, as all my (heep are fix and kven years 

 old, and their want of teeth makes it difficult for 

 them to cat a root fo much harder than turnips. 



** To try how the Ruta-Baga would keep after 

 being taken up, I had a few pulled in November ; 

 one half cart-load I put up in fand in a barn, and 

 the reft I laid upon a grafs-walk in my garden, to 

 be fafe from being eaten upj they lay there entirely 

 cxpofed to the weather until April, when they were 

 juft as good, and the cattle ate them juft as well, as 

 if they had been frefli; thofe in the barn were juft 

 the fame; we had them both at our own table, and 

 found them quite as good as thofe we had eaten in 

 November. This trial abundantly convinces me 

 of their hardinefs, as we had in 1789, from the 15th 

 of March thro* all April, very hard and fevere ftorms 

 of froft and fnow with little or no intermiftion. 



*' In 1790, there was no froft. Imagining this a 

 year that the tranfplanting was ttoublefome, and 

 that they might grow larger if fown on the place 

 where they were to ftand, I caufed half an acre to 

 be fown the firft week in June, in drills of three 

 (ccty and laid out the plants like common turnips i 

 the event anfwered my expectation j the roots were 

 iponfiderably larger than laft ye^r^ although fown on 

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