254 SWEDISH TURNIPS. [PART -II. 



229. My own crop of Swedish Turnips this 

 year is far inferior to that of last in every re 

 spect. The season has been singularly unfa 

 vourable to all green and root crops. The 

 grass has been barer than it was, I believe, 

 ever known to be ; and, of course, other vege 

 tables have experienced a similar fate. Yet, I 

 have some very good turnips; and, even with 

 such a season, they are worth more than three 

 times what a crop of Corn on the same land 

 would have been. I am now (25th Nov.) giving 

 the greens to my cow and hogs. A cow and 

 forty stout hogs eat the greens of about twenty 

 or thirty rods of turnips in a day. My five 

 acres of greens will last about 25 days. I give 

 no corn or grain of any sort to these hogs, and 

 my English hogs are quite fat enough for fresh 

 pork. I have about 25 more pigs to join these 

 forty in a month's time: about 40 more will 

 join those before April. My cabbages on an 

 acre and a half of ground will carry me well 

 on till February (unless I send my Savoys to 

 New York), and, when the cabbages are done, 

 I have my Swedish Turnips for March, April, 

 May and June, with a great many to sell if I 

 choose. I have, besides, a dozen ewes to keep 

 on the same food, with a few wethers and 

 lambs, for my house. In June Early Cabbages 



