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tual experiments on the spot. It was reserved 

 for the Boroughmongers, armed with gags, 

 halters, and axes, to drive from England expe 

 rience and public spirit sufficient to introduce 

 the culture of the green and root crops to the 

 fields of America. 



299. The first gentleman, who came to see whe 

 ther hogs would eat Swedish turnips saw some 

 turnips tossed down on the grass to the hogs, 

 which were eating sweet little loaved cabbages. 

 However, they eat the turnips too before they 

 left off. The second, who came on the after 

 noon of the same day, saw the hogs eat some 

 bulbs chopped up, The hogs were pretty 

 hungry, and the quantity of turnips small, and 

 there was such a shoving and pushing about 

 amongst the hogs to snap up the bits, that the 

 gentleman observed, that they " liked them as 

 " well as corn." 



300. In paragraph 134 I related a fact of a 

 neighbour of mine in Hampshire having given 

 his Swedish turnips, after they had borne seed, to 

 some lean pigs, and had, with that food, made 

 them fit for fresh pork, and sold them as such. 

 A gentleman from South Carolina was here in 

 July last, and I brought some of mine which 

 had then borne seed. They were perfectly sound. 

 The hogs ate them as well as if they had not 

 borne seed. We boiled some in the kitchen for 



