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may be of great use ; and, as it admits of beina: 

 sown later, it may often be very desirable to raise 

 it. But, reserving myself to speak fully, in a 

 future part of my work, of m}' experiments as to 

 these crops, I shall now make a short inquiry as 

 to the value of a crop of Ruta Baga, compared 

 with the value of any other crop. I will just 

 observe, in this place, however, that 1 have grown 

 ^finer carrots, parsnips and Mangle Wurzle, and 

 even finer cabbages, than I ever grew upon the 

 richest land in Hampshire, though not a seed of 

 any of them was put into the ground 'till the month 

 of June. 



138. A good mode, it appears to me, of making 

 my proposed comparative estimate, will be to say, 

 ho-w I would proceed, supposing me to have a farm 

 of my own in this Island, of only one hundred 

 acres. If there were not twelve acres of orchard, 

 near the house, I would throw as much grass land 

 to the orchard as would make up the twelve acres, 

 which I would fence in in an effectual manner, 

 against small pigs as well as large oxen. 



139. Having done this, I would take care to 

 have fifteen acres of good Indian Corn, well plant- 

 ed, well suckered and well tilled in all respects. 

 Good, deep ploughing between the plants would 

 give me forty bushels of shelled corn to an acre ; 

 and a ton to the acre of fodder for my four work- 

 ing oxen and three cows and my sheep and hogs, 

 of which I shall speak presently. 



140. I would have twelve acres of Ruta Baga, 

 three acres of Early Cabbages, an acre of Mangle 

 Wurzle, an acre of Carrots and Parsnips, and as 

 many AVhite Turnips as would grow between my 

 rows of Indian Corn after my last ploughing of 

 that crop. 



141. With these crops, which would occu- 

 py thirty-two acres of ground, I should not fear 

 .being able to keep a good house in all sorts of 



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