100 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



sylvania, how prodigiously the root crops of 

 every kind flourished and succeeded with only 

 common skill and care; and, in 1815, having 

 by that time had many crops of Ruta Baga 

 exceeding thirty tons, or, about one thousand 

 five hundred heaped bushels to the acre, at Bot- 

 ley, I formed the design of sending out to 

 America a treatise on the culture and uses of 

 that root, which, I was perfectly well convinced, 

 could be raised with more ease here than in 

 England, and, that it might be easily preserved 

 during the whole year, if necessary, I had 

 proved in many cases. 



27. If Mr. CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON, whose 

 public-spirit is manifested fully in his excellent 

 little work, which he modestly calls an Essay, 

 could see my ewes and lambs, and hogs and cat 

 tle, at this " critical season" (I write on the 

 27th of March), with more Ruta Baga at their 

 command than they have mouths to employ on 

 it ; if he could see me, who am on a poor ex 

 hausted piece of land, and who found it co* 

 vered with weeds and brambles in the month of 

 June last, who found no manure, and who have 

 brought none ; if he could see me overstocked, 

 not with mouths, but with food, owing to a 

 little care in the cultivation of this invaluable 

 root, he would, I am sure, have reason to be 

 convinced, that, if any farmer in the United 



