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Wurzel, an acre of carrots and parsnips, and 

 as many white turnips as would grow between 

 myrows of Indian corn after iny last ploughing 

 of that crop. 



141. With these crops, which would occupy 

 thirty-two acres of ground, 1 should not fear 

 being able to keep ,a good house in all sorts of 

 meat, together with butter and milk, and to 

 send to market nine quarters of beef and three 

 hides, a hundred early fat lambs, a hundred 

 hogs, weighing twelve score, as we call it in 

 Hampshire, or, two hundred and forty pounds 

 each, and a hundred fat ewes. These, altoge 

 ther, would amount to about three thousand 

 dollars, exclusive of the cost of a hundred 

 ewes and of three oxen ; I should hope, that 

 the produce of my trees in the orchard and of 

 the other fifty-six acres of my farm would pay 

 the rent and the labour; for, as to taxes, the 

 amount is not worth naming, especially after 

 the sublime spectacle of that sort, which the 

 world beholds in England. 



142. I am, you will perceive, not making any 

 account of the price of Ruta Baga, cabbages, 

 carrots, parsnips, and white turnips at New 

 York, or any other market. Inow, indeed, sell 

 carrots and parsnips at three quarters of a dollar 

 the hundred, by tale ; cabbages (of last fall) at 

 about three dollars a hundred, and white turnips 

 at a quarter of a dollar a bushel. When this can 



