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gathered the crop, the transplanted turnips were nearly 

 as large as those that stood where they were sown. 



254. The following is the produce : Two hundred 

 and two bushels on sixty-Jive rod of ground ; a crop 

 arising from a mode of cultivation for which, Sir, I feci 

 very much indebted to you. This crop, as you will 

 perceive, wants but two bushels and a fraction oi' five 

 hundred bushels to the acre ; and I verily believe, that, 

 on this mode of cultivation, an acre of land, which will 

 bring a hundred bushels of corre ears, will produce from 

 seven to eight hundred bvshefs of the Ruta Baga Turnip. 



255. Great numbers of my turnips weigh six pounds 

 each. Tlie greens were almost wholly destroyed by a 

 caterpillar, which 1 never before saw; so that 1 Iiad no 

 opportunity of trying the use of tliem as cattle-food ; but, 

 as to the root, cattle and hogs eat it greedily, and <^attle 

 as well as hogs eat up the little bits that remain at- 

 tached to the fibres, Avhen these are cut from the bulbs. 



256. I am now selling these turnips at half a dollar 

 a bushel. 



257. With begging you to accept of my thanks for 

 the useful information, which, in common with many 

 others, I have received from your Treatise on this valu- 

 able plant, 



I remain, 



^ Dear Sir, 



Your most obedient servant. 



Singleton Mitchell. 

 To Mr. Wm. Cobbett, 

 Hyde Park. 



258. P. 8. I am very anxious to see the Second Part 

 of your Year's Residence. When will it be published 1 



ANSWER. 



Dear Sir, Hyde Park, 9th Dec. 1818. 



259. Your letter has given me very great pleasure. 

 You have really fried the thing : you have given it a 



