64 RuTA Baga culture. [Part I. 



in this island, of only one hundred acres. If there were 

 not twelve acres of orchard near the house, I Avould 

 throw as much grass land to the orchard as would make 

 up the twelve acres, which 1 coidd fence in an effec- 

 tual manner against small pigs as well as large oxen. 



139. Having done this, I would take care to have 

 fifteen acres of good Indian corn, well planted, well 

 suckered, and Avell tilled in all respects. Good, deep 

 ploughing between the plants would give me forty 

 bushels of shelled corn to an acre ; and a ton to the 

 acre of fodder for my four working oxen and three 

 cows, and my sheep and hogs, of which I shall speak 

 presently. 



140. i would have Uvelve acres of Ruta Baga, tliree 

 acres of early cabbages, an acre of Mangel Wurzel, 

 an acre of carrots and parsnips, and as many white tur- 

 nips as would grow between my rows of Indian corn 

 after my last ploughing of that crop. 



141. With these crops, which would occupy thirty- 

 two acres of ground, I should not fear being able to 

 keep a good house in all sorts of meat, together with 

 butter and milk, and to send to market nine quarters 

 of beef and three hides, a hundred early fat lambs, a 

 hundred hogs, weighing twelve score, as wg call it in 

 Hampshire, or, two hundred and ibrty pounds each, 

 and a hundred fat ewes. These altogether, would 

 amount to about three thousand dollars, exclusive of 

 the cost of a hundred ewes and of three oxen ; I should 

 hope, that the produce of my trees in the orchard and 

 of the other fifty-six acres of my farm Avould pay the 

 rent and the labour ; for, as to taxes, the amount is 

 not worth naming, especially after the sublime spec- 

 tacle of that sort, which the world beholds in England. 



142. I am, you will perceive, not making any ac- 

 count of the price of Ruta Baga, cabbages, carrots, 

 parsnips, and white turnips at New York, or any other 

 market. 1 7ioiv, indeed, sell carrots and parsnips at 

 three quarters of a dollar the hundred, by tale ; cab- 

 bages (of last fall) at about three dollars a hundred, and 

 white turnips at a quarter of a dollar a bushel. When 

 this can be done, and the distance is within twenty or 

 thirty miles on the best road in the tvorld, it will, of j 



