IS4 KUTA BAG A CULTURE. Part I. 



animal produces flesh meat like the hog ? Applica- 

 ble to all uses, either fresh or salted, is the meat. 

 Good in all its various shapes. The animal killa- 

 ble at all ages. Quickly fiiited. Good if half fat. 

 Capal^le of supporting an immense burden of fat. 

 Demanding 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 mul- 

 tiply very fast ; because many upon a farm cannot 

 be kept to much prolit. But, if, by providing a 

 sufficiency of Ruta Baga, a hundred pigs could be 

 raised upon a farm in a year, and carried on 'till 

 latting time, they would be worth, when ready to 

 go into the fatting st3^1e, fifteen dollars each. This 

 would be something worth attending to ; and, the 

 farm must become rich from the manure. The Ru- 

 ta 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 any grassy place, it will 

 keep a good sort of hog always in a very thriving 

 andeven^es% state. 



134. 'i his root, being called aiurnip, is regarded 

 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 

 roots of the bulb kind, cultivated in the fields ; 

 and, the Ruta Baga, all taken together, is, perhaps, 

 the very best. It loses none of its good qualities 

 by being long kept, though drj^ all the while. A 

 neighbour of mine in Hampshire, having saved a 

 large piece of Ruta Baga for Seed, and having, 

 after harvesting the seed, accidentally thrown some 

 of the roots into his yard, saw his hogs eat these 

 old roots, which had borne the seed. He gave 

 them some more, and saw that they eat them gree- 

 dily. Hp, therefore, went and bought a wliole 

 drove, in number about forty, of lean pigs of a good 

 large size, brought them into his yard, carted in 

 the roots of his seed Ruta Baga ; and, without having 



