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RUTA BAGA; OR, SWEDISH TURNIP. 



To the Editor of the New York Evening Post. 



Hyde Park, Long- Island, 

 3d Jan. 1819. 



SIR, 



1049. MY publications of last year, on the 

 amount of the crops of Ruta Baga, were, by 

 many persons, considered romantic ; or, at best, 

 a good deal strained. I am happy, therefore, 

 to be able .to communicate to the public, 

 through your obliging columns, a letter from 

 an American farmer on the subject. You may 

 remember, if you did me the honour to read my 

 Treatise on the cultivation of this root (in Part 

 I. of the Year's Residence), that I carried the 

 amount of my best Botley-crops no higher than 

 one thousand three hundred bushels to the acre. 

 The following interesting letter will, 1 think, 

 convince every one, that I kept, in all my state 

 ments, below the mark. Here we have an 

 average weight of roots of six pounds and a 

 half. 



