158 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



Quantity of the Crop. 



115. It is impossible for me to say, at present, 

 what quantity of Ruta Baga may be grown on 

 an acre of land in this Island. My three acres 

 of ridged turnips, sown on the 26th of June, 

 were very unequal, but, upon one of the acres, 

 there were six hundred and forty bushels; I 

 mean heaped bushels; that is to say, an English 

 statute bushel heaped as long as the com 

 modity will lie on. The transplanted turnips 

 yielded about four hundred bushels to the acre ; 

 but then, observe, they were put in a full month 

 too late. This year, I shall make a fair trial. 



116. I have given an account of my raising, 

 upon five acres in one field, and twelve acres in 

 another field, one thousand three hundred and 

 twenty bushels to an acre, throughout the seven 

 teen acres. I have no doubt of equalling that 

 quantity on this island, and that, too, upon 

 some of its poorest and most exhausted land. 

 They tell me, indeed, that the last summer was 

 a remarkably fine summer; so they said at 

 Botley, when I had my first prodigious crop of 

 Ruta Baga. This is the case in all the pur 

 suits of life. The moment a man excels those, 

 who ought to be able and willing to do as well 

 as he ; that moment, others set to work to dis 

 cover causes for his success, other than those 

 proceeding/row himself. But, as I used to tell 



