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RUTA BAGA; or, SWEDISH TURXIP. 



To THE E0ITOU OF TUE NeW YoRK E VEXING PoST. 



Hyde Park, Ijins-hland, 

 SIB, 3(i Jan. 1819. 



649. My publications of last yesir, on the amount of 

 the crops of Riita Bas^a, were, by many persons, con- 

 sidered romantic; or, at best, a good deal strained. I 

 am happy, therefore, to be able to communicate to the 

 public, through your obliging columns, a letter ironi an 

 American farmer on the subject. You may remember, 

 if yon did me the honour to read my Treatise on tiie 

 cultivation of this root (in Part I. of the Year's Resi- 

 dence), that I carried the amount ol" my best Botley- 

 crops no higher than one thousand three hundred husl eh 

 to the acre. The following interesting letter will, I 

 think, convince every one, that I kept, in all iny state- 

 ments, below the mark. IJere we have an average 

 weight of roots of .su- pounds and a hatf. 



(350. I beg 3Ir. Towxseno to accept of my best 

 thanks for his letter, which has given me very great 

 satisfaction, and which will, I am sure, be of great use 

 in promf>ting the cultivation of this valuable root. 



651. Many gentlemen have writ'en to me with re- 

 gard to the n\Ui\eo\' preserrin(i the Ruta Baga. I have, 

 in the SECOND PART of my Years liesidciicti, 

 which will he published at New York, in a Jew days, 

 given a very full account of this matter. 

 1 am, Sir, your most humble 



And most obedient Servant, 



Wm. cobbett. 



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