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upon corn-stalks ; and indeed this, to a certain 

 extent, would be the case with the sheep. How 

 ever, as I mean that every thing should be of 

 a good size, and live well, 1 make ample pro 

 vision. 



147. 1 should want then, to raise five hun 

 dred bushels of Ruta Baga upon each of my 

 twelve acres ; and why should I not do it, see 

 ing that I have this year raised six hundred and 



forty bushels upon an acre, under circumstances 

 such as I have stated them? I lay it down, there 

 fore, that, with a culture as good as that of In 

 dian corn, any man may, on this island (where 

 corn will grow) have 500 bushels to the acre. 



148. 1 am now come to the first of July. My 

 oxen are fatted and disposed of. My lambs 

 are gone to market, the last of them a month 

 ago. My pigs are weaned and of a good 

 size. And now my Ruta Baga is gone. But my 

 ewes, kept well through the winter, will soon 

 be fat upon the 12 acres of orchard and the hay- 

 ground, aided by my three acres of early caj> 

 bages, which are now fit to begin cutting, or, ra 

 ther, pulling up. The weight of this crop may 

 be made very great indeed. Ten thousand plants 

 will stand upon an acre, in four feet ridges, and 

 every plant ought to weigh three pounds atleast. 

 I have shown before how advantageously Ruta 

 Baga transplanted would follow these cabbages, 

 all through the months of July and August. But 



