152 Swedish Turnips. [Part II. 



fair trial. Mr. Tull, when people said of his horse- 

 hoeing system, that they had tried it, and found it not 

 to answer, used to reply: " What have they tried? 

 " all lies in the little word IT." 



260. You have really tried it ; and very interesting 

 your account is. It is a complete answer to all those, 

 ■who talk about loss of ground from four-feet ridges ; 

 and especially when we compare your crop with that 

 of Mr. James Byrd, of Flushing; whose ground was 

 prepared at an early season ; who manured richly ; 

 ■who kept his land like a neat garden ; and, in short, 

 ■\vhose field Avas one of the most beautiful objects of 

 which one can form an idea ; but, whose ridges were 

 shoni tico Ject and a half ?i^?cri^ instead o{ four feet, 

 and who had three hundred and fifty bushels to the 

 acre, while you, with all your disadvantages of late 

 ploughing and sods beneath, had at the rate of /ive 

 hundred bushels. 



261. From so excellent a judge as you are, to hear 

 .commendation of my little Treatise, must naturally be 

 very pleasing to me, as it is a proof that I have not 

 erjoyed the protection of America without doing some- 

 thing for it in return. Your example will be followed 

 by thousands ; a new and copious source of human 

 sustenance Mill be opened to a race of free and happy 

 people ; and to have been, though in the smallest de- 

 gree, instrumental in the creating of this source, will 

 always be a subject of great satisfaction, to, 



Dear Sir, 



Your most obedient. 



And most humble servant, 

 Wm. Cobbett. 



262. P. S. 1 shall to-raorrow send the Second Part 

 of wy Year's Residence to the press. I dare say it 

 will be ready in three weeks. 



263. I conclude this chapter by observing, that a 

 boroughmonger hireling, who was actually fed with 

 pap, purchased by money paid to his father by the 

 minister Pitt, for writing and publishing lies against 

 the Prince of Wales and the Dtthe of York, the ac- 



