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son at all; for, if I once got out, I should have 

 kept out. I was very anxious about them ; but 

 much more anxious about my duty to my 

 countrymen, who have remained so firmly at 

 tached to me, and in whose feelings and views, 

 as to public matters, I so fully participate. I 

 left my men to do their best, and, considering 

 the season, they did very well. I have observed 

 before, that I never saw my Savoys 'till two 

 months after they were planted out in the field, 

 and I never saw some of my Swedish Turnips 

 'till within these fifteen days. 



232. But, as [ said before, some of my neigh 

 bours have made the experiment with great 

 success. I mentioned Mr. Dayrea's crop be 

 fore, at paragraph 197. Mr. HART, at South 

 Hampstead, has a fine piece, as my son informs 

 me. His account is, that the field looked, in 

 October, as fine as any that he ever saw in 

 England. Mr. JUDGE MITCHELL has a small 

 field that were, when I saw them, as fine as 

 any that I ever saw in my life. He had trans 

 planted some in the driest and hottest weather ; 

 and they were exceedingly fine, notwithstanding 

 the singular untowardness of the season. 



233. Mr. JAMES BYRD of Flushing, has, 

 however, done the thing upon the largest scale. 

 He sowed, in June, about two acres and a half 

 upon ridges thirty inches apart. They were 



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