172 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



young pigs and weaning pigs, is one of the 

 greatest hindrances to improvement ; for, after 

 all, what animal produces flesh meat like the 

 hog ? applicable to all uses, either fresh or 

 salted, is the meat. Good in all its various 

 'shapes. The animal killable at all ages. 

 Quickly fatted. Good if half fat. Capable of 

 supporting an immense burden of fat. Demand 

 ing but little space for its accommodation ; and 

 yet, if grain and corn and milk are to be their 

 principal food, during their lives, they cannot 

 multiply very fast ; because many upon a farm 

 cannot be kept to much profit. But, if by pro 

 viding a sufficiency of Ruta Baga, a hundred 

 pigs could be raised upon a farm in a year, and 

 carried on till fatting time, they would be worth, 

 when ready to go into the fatting sty, fifteen 

 dollars each. This would be something worth 

 attending to ; and the farm must become rich 

 from the manure. The Ruta Baga, taken out 

 of the heaps early in April, will keep well and 

 sound all the summer ; and with a run in an 

 orchard, or in a grassy place, it will keep a good 

 sort of hog always in a very thriving, and even 

 fleshy state. 



134. This root, being called a turnip, is re 

 garded as a turnip, as a common turnip, than 

 which nothing can be much less resembling it. 

 The common turnip is a very poor thing. The 

 poorest of all the roots of the bulb kind, cul- 



