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especially when they follow summer cab 

 bages, be given in greater proportionate quan 

 tities. 



298. As to the bulb of the Swedish turnip,! have 

 said enough, in the First Part, as food for hogs ; 

 and I should not have mentioned the matter 

 again, had I not been visited by two gentlemen, 

 who came on purpose (from a great distance) to 

 see, whether hogs really would eat Swedish 

 turnips ! Let not the English farmers laugh at 

 this ; let them not imagine, that the American 

 farmers are a set of simpletons on this account : 

 for, only about thirty years ago, the English 

 farmers would, not, indeed, have gone a great 

 distance to ascertain the fact, but would have 

 said at once, that the thing was false. It is 

 Yiot more than about four hundred years since 

 the Londoners were wholly supplied with cab 

 bages, spinage, turnips, carrots, and all sorts 

 of garden stuff from Flanders. And now, I 

 suppose, that one single parish in Kent grows 

 more garden stuff than all Flanders. The first 

 settlers came to America long and long before 

 even the white turnip made its appearance in 

 the fields in England. The successors of the 

 first settlers trod in the foot-steps of their fa 

 thers. The communication with England did 

 not bring out good English farmers. Books 

 made little impression unaccompanied with ac- 



