cottager's cultivation. QSB 



She has sixteen poles for her garden ; upon which she plants 

 peas, beans, and a part with cabbages ; but has early potatoes, 

 and peas and cabbages, and boils the turnips for her pig. 



The only other expence of feeding her pig, is swo or three 

 bushels of peas ; and when fit to kill, it weighs about three hun- 

 dred pounds. She buys it at the age of four or five months, a- 

 bout the month of February ; and it is killed about the month 

 of January in the following year. 



When she first began this method of alternate crops, and 

 for several years after, she depended on the neighobringfarm- 

 ers for ploughing her land and harrowing, both for the potatoes 

 and wheat: but as the farmers naturally delayed working for 

 her, till their own work was chiefly over, her land was not 

 ploughed in proper season. She has been for the last six 

 years independent of the farmer. 



She is careful to sow no more land at a time, than she car- 

 clear of potatoes that day. 



Observations by the sam€ writer. 



This mode of culture proves, that potatoes and wheat can be 

 produced alternately upon the same land, for a long course of 

 years, provided that a small quantity of manure be every year 

 used for the potatoes; and it shews that a cottager may procure 

 food from a small portion of land, by his owokbor, without anf 

 expence. 



