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POSTSCRIPT TO THE CHAPTER ON SWEDISH 

 TURNIPS. 



247. Since writing the above, I have seen 

 Mr. JUDGE MITCHELL, and having requested 

 him to favour me with a written account of his 

 experiment, he has obligingly complied with 

 my request in a letter, which I here insert, 

 together with my answer. 



Ploudome, 7 Dec. 1818. 

 DEAR SIR, 



248. About the first of June last, I received 

 the First Part of your Years Residence in the 

 United States, which I was much pleased with, 

 and particularly the latter part of the book, 

 which contains a treatise on the culture of the 

 Ruta Baga. This mode of culture was new 

 to me, and I thought it almost impossible that 

 a thousand bushels should be raised from one 

 acre of ground. However, I felt very anxious 

 to try the experiment in a small way. 



. 249. Accordingly, on the 6th day of June, I 

 ploughed up a small piece of ground, joining 

 my salt meadow, containing sixty-Jive rods, that 

 had not been ploughed for nearly thirty years. 

 I ploughed the ground deep, and spread on it 



