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many fresh men, and my sons and myself 

 cocked the hay, and stacked it and some 

 rare sweats we had ! The turnips were ready 

 to hoe at the same time, so that we were 

 pretty full-handed ; and it was the general 

 talk that we should kill ourselves ; and I 

 really think never three people worked so 

 hard in the world for the length of time, 

 and especially in such a climate. 



The turnips grew beyond any thing T 

 could expect, and particularly four rows 

 which I did with some plaster of Paris. 

 Having, at the time when I entered, sown 

 a part of the clover also with plaster of Paris, 

 according to Judge Peters' direction, and by 

 way of experiment left some lands without 

 any, the plaster answered no good purpose, 

 nor made any other difference than that this 

 part of the clover was of a much finer green, 

 so that one might perceive to an inch how 

 far it went, but I do not think I had a 

 pound of hay more where it was sown than 

 where it was not sown. On the turnips, 

 however, it amazed me* Seeing this, I 



