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•would have said at once, that the thing wasfalse. It is not 

 more than about four hundred years since the Londoners 

 were whelly supphed ^vith cabbages, spinage, turnips, 

 carrots, and all sorts of garden atuf^ from Flanders. 

 And no^v% I suppose, that one single parish in Kent 

 grows more garden stuff than all Flanders. The 

 first settlers came to America long and long belbre 

 even the tchite turnip made its appearance in the /ields 

 in England. The successors of the first settlers trod in 

 the foot-steps of their fathers. The communication with 

 England did not bring out good Englishfarmers. Books, 

 made little impression unaccompanied with actual expe- 

 riments on the spot. It was reserved for the Borough- 

 mongers, armed with gags, halters, and axes, to drive 

 from England experience and public spirit sufficient to 

 introduce the culture of the green and root crops to the 

 fields of America. 



299. The first gentleman, who came to see whether 

 hogs would eat Swedish turnips, saw some turnips tossed 

 down on the grass to the hogs, which were eating sweet 

 little loaved cabbages. However, they eat the turnips 

 too before they left off. The second, who came on the 

 afternoon of the same day, saw the hogs eat some bulbs 

 chopped up. The hogs were pretty hungry, and the 

 quantity of turnips small, and there was such a shoving 

 and pushing about amongst the hogs to snap up the bits, 

 that the gentleman observed, that they " liked them as 

 " %vell as corn." 



300. In paragraph 134 I related a fact of a neigh- 

 bour of mine in Hampshire having given his Swedish 

 turnips, after they had home seed, to some lean pigs, 

 and had, with that food, made them fit for fresh porky 

 and sold them as such. A gentleman from South Caro- 

 lina was here in July last, and I brought some of mine 

 which had then borne seed. They were perfectly sound. 

 The hogs ate them as well as if they had not borne seed. 

 We boiled some in the kitchen for dinner; and they 

 appeared as good as those eaten in the winter. This 

 shews clearly how well this root keeps. 



301. NoAv, these facts being, I hope, undoubted, is it 

 not surprising, that, in many parts of this fine country, 

 it is the rule to keep only 07ie pig for every cow ! The 



