Chap. VI.] Swedish Turnips. 141 



easily enough, if you cram the butts of the leaves down 

 below the surface. But, this brings the earth, with the 

 first rain at le^st, over the heart of the plant ; and then 

 it will never ^ro JO at all : it will just //re; but will never 

 increase in size one single jot. Care, therefore, must 

 be taken of this. The fixing is to be effected by the 

 stick being applied to the point of the root ; as men- 

 tioned in paragraph 85. Not to fix the plant is a great 

 fault ; but to bury the heart is a nmch greater ; for, if 

 this be done the plant is sure to die. 



229. My own crop of Swedish Turnips this year is 

 far inferior to that of last in every respect. The season 

 has been singularly unfavourable to all green and root 

 crops. The (jrass has been barer than it was, I be- 

 lieve, ever known to be ; and, of course, other vegeta- 

 bles have experienced a similar fate. Yet, I have 

 some very good turnips ; and, even with such a season, 

 they are worth more than three times what a crop of 

 Corn on the same land would have been, i am now 

 (25th Nov.) giving the greens to my cow and hogs. A 

 cow and forty stout hogs eat the greens of about twenty 

 or thirty rods of turnips in a day. My five acres of 

 greens will last about 25 days. I give no corn or grain 

 of any sort to these hogs, and my English hogs are 

 quite fat enough for fresk pork. 1 have about 25 more 

 pigs to join these forty in a month's time : about 40 

 more will join those before April. My cabbages on an 

 acre and a half of ground will carry me well on till 

 February (unless I send my savoys to New Yorl;), and, 

 when the cabbages are done, I have my Swedish Tur- 

 nips for March, April, May and June, witli a great 

 many to sell if 1 choose. I have, besides, a dozen ewes 

 to keep on the same food, with a few wethers and lambs 

 for my house. In June Early Cabbages come in; and 

 then the hogs feed on them. Thus the year is brought 

 round. 



230. But, what pleases me most, as to the Swedish 

 Turnips, is, that several of my neighbours have tried 

 the culture, and have far surpassed me in it this year. 

 Their land is better than mine, and they have had no 

 Borough-villains and Bank-villains to fight against. 

 Since my Turnips were sown, I have written great part 



