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may be raifed at lefs expence here than in Britain, becaufe 

 we have much fewer weeds, which are the greateft enemies 

 to that root ; by cabbages and potatoes, which grow well 

 here ; and by pumpkins, which are raifed in very confiderable 

 quantities in our Indian corn fields, without any other expence 

 than that of dropping a few feeds in the hills, and carting 

 the crop — ^Nor can I help recommending them as a rich and 

 nutritious food that will fave two month's hay, if ufed in 

 the beginning of the winter, and afford milk and butter equal 

 in quantity and quality to the produd of the richefl paflure — 

 Thefe legumens would not be fo much neglefted here as they 

 generally are, were it not that hay is made in this country at 

 half the expence that it requires in the moifl climate of Britain ; 

 Vegetation there is extremely flow ; their fpring Is nearly one 

 month earlier than our*s ; yet though their wheat begins to 

 grow in March, It is not reaped till late in Augufl- — our*s is 

 cut fix weeks earlier, though it does not begin to vegetate 

 lill late in April : So that it takes five and one half months 

 in Britain to perfe6l a crop which is performed here in little 

 better than three. The fame caufes influence the growth of 

 grafs — In foils therefore of equal quality, much lefs will 

 grow in a given time in Britain than in America, as I infer 

 from the general average of their clover and natural grafs in 

 not exceeding ours, though they are longer in a growing flate. 

 |t is true, that the moiflure of the climate, and mild winters. 



