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(at an expence of about thirteen pounds 

 ten shillings) for selling them, 



Now how to get my land prepared for 

 my turnips I did not know, as I could not 

 meet with any man as a servant or labour- 

 er to do any thing, especially to plough; 

 but with some difficulty I hired a man to 

 come to plough with his own horses^ at 

 three dollars a day, which was at the rate of 

 a dollar for a quarter of an acre, and I was 

 obliged to consider it as a very great favour 

 that I got it done at all. Myself and my 

 two sons had previously scraped up all the 

 dung we could, and mixed it with earth for 

 a compost for these turnips : this we had 

 done immediately after the gusts of rain, 

 which always prevented us from hoeing 

 the corn, for they make the land so soft 

 that we could not waHc across it for a day 

 or two without sinking as deep as the 

 plough had gone, or deeper. Though I 

 had not myself ploughed for some years, I 

 was compelled now to begin again to land 

 the corn ; I holding the plough, while one. 



