40 RuTA Baga culture. [Part I. 



CHAP. II. 



RUTA BAGA. 



Culture, Modk of preserving, and uses of the 

 RuTA Bag A, sometimes called the Russia, and 



SOMETIMES THE SwEDISH TuRNIP. 



Description of the Plant. 



25. It is ray intention, as notified in the public 

 papers, to put into print an account of all the experi- 

 ments, which I have made, and shall malie in Farming 

 and in Gardemng upon this Island. I, several years 

 ago, long before t>Tanny showed its present horrid front 

 in England, formed the design of sending out, to be pub- 

 lished in this country, a treatise on the cultivation of the 

 root and green crops, as cattle, sheep, and hog food. 

 This design was suggested by the reading of the fol- 

 lowing passage in Mr. Chancellor Livingston's 

 Essay on Sheep, which I received in 1812. After 

 having stated the most proper means to be employed 

 in order to keep sheep and lambs during the winter 

 months, he adds : " Having brought our flocks through 

 " the winter, we come now to the most critical season, that 

 " is, the latter end of March and the month of April. At 

 " this time the ground being bare, the sheep will refuse 

 " to eat their hay, while the scanty picking of grass, and 



