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and grain fields after harvest, with about 40 or 50 

 waggon loads of Ruta Baga greens, would carry my 

 stock well till December, (cabbages being planted at 

 different times,) and from December to February, 

 Mangel Wurtzel, or scarcity, with white turnips, 

 would keep my sheep, cattle and breeding sows plen- 

 tifully; and my 100 fattening hogs, would be more 

 than half fat upon the carrots and parsnips ; or I 

 should keep my parsnips over till spring, and supply 

 their place with corn for the fattening hogs ; which 

 would consume about 3 bushels to each hog to com- 

 plete their fattening, the remainder should be reserv- 

 ed for sows when giving milk, or the ewes occasion- 

 ally. Thus all my hay and oats, and wheat, and 

 rye, might be saved and sold, leaving me the straw 

 for litter ; these surely would pay the rent or inter- 

 est, and taxes and labour. 



" If it should be objected that I have taken no ac- 

 count of the mutton, beef and pork my house would 

 consume, neither have I taken any account of the 100 

 summer pigs which the 14 sows would bring, and 

 which would be worth 200 dollars." 



Mr. Gobbet goes on to state, " that his stock would, 

 in one shape or another, give him more manure than 

 would amount in utility to a thousand tons weight of 

 common yard manure, which would give 10 tons to 

 the acre annually ;" and thus concludes ; " It is better 

 to have one acre of good crop, than two acres of bad. 

 If the one acre can, by double the manure, and dou- 

 ble the labour in tillage, be made to produce as much 

 as two other acres ; the one acre is preferable, because 

 it requires but half the fencing, and little more than 

 half the harvesting, witWialf the interest and taxes, 

 as two acres. 



" A heavy crop upon all the ground that 1 can put 

 a plough into, is what I should seek, rather than to 

 have a great quantity of land." 



N. B. Mr. Cobbet has not noticed the profits upon 

 young stock, with which he might have consumed his 



