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what a crop vf Buck-wheat would follow such of 

 the cabbages as came off in July ! My cabbages, 

 together with my hay-fields and grain-fields 

 after harvest, and about forty or fifty waggon- 

 loads of Ruta Baga greens, would carry me 

 along well till December (the cabbages being 

 planted at different times) ; for my ewes would 

 be sold fat in July, and my pigs would be only 

 increasing in demand for food ; and the new 

 hundred ewes need not, and ought not, to be 

 kept so well as if they were fatting, or had lambs 

 by their side. 



149. From the first of December to the first 

 of February, Mangel Wurzel and white turnips 

 would keep the sheep and cattle and breeding 

 sows plentifully ; for the latter will live well 

 upon Mangel Wurzel ; and my hundred hogs, 

 intended for fatting, would be much more than 

 half fat upon the carrots and parsnips. I 

 should, however, more probably keep my pars 

 nips till Spring, and mix the feeding with car 

 rots with the feeding with corn, for the first 

 month, or fifteen days, with regard to the fatting 

 hogs. None of these hogs would require more 

 than three bushels of corn each to finish them 

 completely. My other three hundred bushels 

 would be for sows giving suck ; the ewes, now 

 and then in wet weather; and for other occa 

 sional purposes. ^ t 



J 50. Thus all my hay and oats, and wheat and 



