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RUTA BAGA ; OR, SWEDISH TURNIP. 

 To the Editor of the New York Evening Post. 



Hyde Park , L ong- Ishi nd, 



^d. Jan. 1819. 

 SIR, 



1049. MY publications of last year, on the amount of the crops 

 of Ruta Baga, were, by many persons, considered 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 from an American farmer on the subject. You may re 

 member, if you did me the honour to read my Treatise on the 

 cultivation of this root (in Part I. of the Year s Residence), that I 

 carried the amount of my best Botley-crops no higher than one 

 thousand three hundred bushels to the acre. The following 

 interesting letter will, I think, convince every one, that I kept, 

 in all my statements, below the mark. Here we have an average 

 weight of roots of six pounds and a half. 



1050. I beg Mr. TOWNSEND 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 promoting the cultivation of this 

 valuable root. 



1051. Many gentlemen have written to me with regard to the 

 mode of preserving the Ruta Baga. I have, in the SECOND 

 PART of my Year s Residence, which will be published at New 

 York, in a few days, given a very full account of this matter. 



I am, Sir, your most humble 



And most obedient servant, 



WM. COBBETT 



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