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at night. In order, therefore, to expedite tfie work, I called in the 

 aid of those efficient fellow-labourers, a pair of oven, which, with 

 a good strong plough, going up one side of each row of turnips, 

 took away the earth close to the bulbs, left them bare on one side, 

 and thus made it extremely easy to pull them up. We wanted 

 spades no longer ; all our hands were employed taking up the 

 turnips ; and our job, instead of being half done that day, was 

 completed by about two o clock. Well and justly did MOSES 

 order, that the ox should not be muzzled while he was treading 

 out the corn ; for, surely, no animals are so useful, so docile, so 

 gentle as these, while they require at our hands so little care and 

 labour in return ! 



108. Now, it will be observed, that the turnips here spoken 

 of, were put up when the ground and the turnips were frozen. 

 Yet they have kept perfectly sound and good ; and I arn preparing 

 to plant some of them for seed. I am now writing on the loth 

 of April. I send off these turnips to market every week. The 

 tops and tails, and offal I give to the pigs, to the ewes and lambs, 

 and to a cow, and to working oxen, which all feed together upon 

 this offal flung out about the barn-yard, or on the grass ground in 

 the orchard. Before they have done, they leave not a morsel. 

 But, of feeding I shall speak by and by. 



109. The other crop of turnips, I mean those which were 

 transplanted, as mentioned in paragraphs 72 and 73, and which, 

 owing to their being planted so late in the summer, kept on 

 growing most luxuriantly till the very hard frosts came. 



no. We were now got on to the i7th of December ; and I had 

 cabbages to put up. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the 2ist 

 and 22nd and 23rd, we had a very hard frost, as the reader, if he 

 live on this island, will well remember. There came a thaw 

 afterwards, and the transplanted turnips were put up like the 

 others ; but this hard frost had pierced them too deeply, especially 

 as they were in so tender and luxuriant a state. Many of these 

 we find rotted near the neck ; and, upon the whole, they have 

 suffered a loss of about one half. An acre, left to take their chance 

 in the field, turned out, like most of the games of hazard, a total 

 loss. They were all rotted. 



in. This loss arose wholly from my want of sufficient ex 

 perience. I was anxious to neglect no necessary precaution ; 

 and I was fully impressed, as I always am, with the advantages 

 of being early. But, early in December, I lost a week at New 

 York ; and, though I worried my neighbours half to death to 

 get at a knowledge of the time of the hard weather setting in, I 

 could obtain no knowledge, on which I could rely, the several 

 accounts being so different from each other. The general account 

 was, that there would be no very hard weather till after Christmas. 

 I shall know better another time I MAJOR CARTWRIGTIT says, in 

 speaking of the tricks of English Boroughmongers, at the 

 &quot; Glorious Revolution,&quot; that they will never be able to play the 



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