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bed. A bed of this sort, fifteen feet long, has 

 given me, this year, the better part of an acre 

 of fine cabbages to give to hogs in the parching 

 month of July. This is so very simple a mat 

 ter; it is so very easy to learn; that there is 

 scarcely a farmer in America, who would not 

 put the thing in practice, at once, with com 

 plete success. 



163. Let not my countrymen, who may hap 

 pen to read this suppose, that these, or any 

 other, pursuits will withdraw my attention 

 from, or slacken my zeal in, that cause, which 

 is common to us all. That cause claims, and 

 has, my first attention and best exertion ; that 

 is the business of my life : these other pursuits 

 are my recreation. King ALFRED allowed 

 eight hours for recreation, in the twenty-four, 

 eight for sleep, and eight for business. I do not 

 take my allowance of the two former. 



164. Upon looking into the First Part, I see, 

 that I expressed a hope to be able to give, in 

 some part of this work, a sketch of the work 

 of Mr. TULL. 1 have looked at TULL, and I 

 cannot bring my mind up to the commission of 

 so horrid an act as that of garbling such a 

 work. It was, perhaps, a feeling, such as that 

 which I experience at this moment, which re 

 strained Mr. CURWEN from even naming TULL, 

 wheu he gave one of TULL'S experiments to the 



