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grass coming, on Long Island. Look at their jvorth in 

 June, and compare it with the few dollars that you have 

 got by fatting the ox ; and look also at the mannre in the 

 two cases. A farmer, on this Island fatted two oxen last 

 winter upon corn. He told me, after he had sold them, 

 that, if he had given the oxen away, and sold the corn, 

 he should have had more money in his pocket. Biit, if 

 he had kept, through the winter, four or five summer pigs 

 upon this corn, would they have eaten all his corn to no 

 purpose ■? I am aware, that pigs get something at an 

 ox-stable door ; but what a process is this ! 



296. My hogs are now living ichoUy upon Swedish 

 turnip greens, and, though I have taken no particular 

 pains about the matter, they look very well, and, for 

 store hogs and sows, are as iat as I wish them to be. 

 My English hogs are sleek, and fit for fresh pork ; and 

 all the hogs not only eat the greens but do well upon 

 them. But, observe, I give them plenty three times a 

 day. In the forenoon we get a good wagon load, and 

 that is for three meals. This is a main thing, this 

 plenty ; and, the farmer must see to it with his OWN 

 EYES ; for, workmen are all starvers, except of them- 

 selves. I never had a man in my life, who would not 

 starve a hog, if I would let him ; that is to say, if the 

 food was to be got by some labour. You must, there- 

 fore, see to this ; or, you do not try the thing at all. 



297. Turnip greens are, however, by no means equal 

 to cabbages, or even to cabbage leaves. The cabbage, 

 and even the leaf, is the friiit of the plant ; which is not 

 the case with the Turnip green. Therefore the latter 

 must, especially when they follow summer cabbages, be 

 given in greater proportionate quantities. 



298. As to the bitlb of the Swedish turnip, I have said 

 enough, in the First Part, as food for hogs ; and I should 

 not have mentioned the matter again, had I not been 

 visited by two gentlemen, who came on purpose (from ft 

 great distance) to see, whether hogs realty would eat 

 Swedish turnips ! Let not the English farmers laugh jat 

 this i let them not imagine, that the American farmers 

 are a set of simpletons on this account: for, only about 

 thirty years ago, the English farmers would, not, indeed, 

 hwe gone a great distance to ascertain the fact, blrt 



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