174 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. [PART I. 



136. Nor are the greens to be forgotten. In 

 England, they are generally eaten by the sheep, 

 when they are turned in upon them. When the 

 roots are taken up for uses at the home-stead, 

 the greens are given to store-pigs and lean cattle. 

 1 cut mine off, while the roots were in the 

 ground, and gave them to fatting cattle upon 

 g.rass land, alternately with Indian corn in the 

 ear ; and, in this way, they are easily and most 

 profitably applied, and they come, too, just 

 after the grass is gone from the pastures. An 

 acre produces about four good waggon loads 

 of greens ; and they are taken ofFfresh and fresh 

 as they are wanted, and, at the same time, the 

 roots are thus made ready for going, at once, 

 into the heaps. Pigs, sheep, cattle; all like 

 the greens as well as they do the roots. Try 

 any of them with the greens of white turnips ; 

 and, if they touch them, they will have changed 

 their natures, or, at least, their tastes. 



137. The Mangel Wurzel, the cabbage, the 

 carrot, and the parsnip, are all useful; and 

 the latter, that is to say, the parsnip, very valu 

 able indeed ; but the main cattle-crop is the 

 Ruta Baga. Even the white turnip, if well cul 

 tivated, may be of great use ; and, as it admits 

 of being sown later, it may often be very de 

 sirable to raise it. But, reserving myself to 

 speak fully, in a future part of my work, of my 

 experiments as to these crops, I shall now make 



