COWS, SHEEP, 



he should have had more money in his pocket. But, 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 wholly 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 fat 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 waggon load, and that is for three 

 meals. This is a main thing, this plenty : and, the farmer must 

 see to it w r ith his OWN EYES ; for, workmen are all starvers, 

 except of themselves. 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 



be got by some labour. You must, therefore, 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 fruit 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 bulb of the Swedish turnip, I have said enough, 

 in the First Part, as food for hogs ; and I should not have men 

 tioned the matter again, had I not been visited by two gentlemen, 

 who came on purpose (from a great distance) to see, whether hogs 

 really would eat Swedish turnips ! Let not the English farmers 

 laugh at this ; 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, have gone a 

 great distance to ascertain the fact, but would have said at once, 

 that the thing was false. It is not more than about four hundred 

 years since the Londoners were wholly supplied with cabbages, 

 spinage, turnips, carrots, and all sorts of garden stuff from Flanders. 

 And now, I suppose, that one single parish in Kent grows more 

 garden stuff than all Flanders. The first settlers came to 

 America long and long before even the white turnip made its 

 appearance in the fields in England. The successors of the first 

 settlers trod in the foot-steps of their fathers. The communica 

 tion with England did not bring out good English farmers. Books 

 made little impression unaccompanied with actual experiments 

 on the spot. It was reserved for the Boroughmongers, armed 

 with gags, halters, and axes, to drive from England experience 

 and public spirit sufficient to introduce the culture of the green 

 and root crops to the fields of America. 



299. The first gentleman, who came to see whether hogs would 

 eat Swedish turnips saw some turnips tossed down on the grass 



o the hogs, which were eating sv/eet little loaved cabbages. 



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