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meat, together with butter and milk, and to send 

 to Market nine quarters of beef Jind three hides, 

 a hundred early fat lambs, a hundred hogs, weigh- 

 ing twelve score, as we call it in Hampshire, or 

 two hundred and forty pounds each, and a hun- 

 dred fat ewes. These, all together, would amount 

 to about three thousand dollars, exclusive of the 

 cost of a hundred Ewes and of three Oxen ; and, 

 I should hope, that the produce of my trees in 

 the orchard and of the other fifty-six acres of my 

 farm would pay the rent and the labour ; for, as 

 to taxes, the amount is not worth naming, espe- 

 cially after the sublime spectacle of that sort, 

 which the world beholds in England. 



142. I am, you will perceive, not making any 

 account of the price of Ruta Baga, Cabbages, Car- 

 rots, Parsnips, and White Turnips at Kew-York^ 

 or any other market. I now, indeed, sell carrots 

 and parsnips at three quarters of a dollar the 

 hundred by tale ; cabbages (of last fall) at about 

 three dollars a hundred, and White Turnips at a 

 quarter of a dollar a bushel. When this can be 

 done, and the distance is within twenty or thirty 

 miles on the best road in the world, it will, of 

 course, be done ; but, my calculations are built 

 upon a supposed consumption of the whole upon 

 the farm by animals of one sort or another. 



143. My feeding would be nearly as follows. I 

 will begin with February ; for, until then the Ptuta 

 Baga does not come to its sweetest taste. It is like 

 an apple, that must have time to ripen ; but, then^ 

 it retains its goodness much longer- I have proved, 

 and especially in the feeding of hogs, that the Ruta 

 Baga is never so good, 'till it arrives at a mature 

 »tate. In February, and about the first of that 

 month, I should begin bringing in my Ruta Baga, 

 in the manner before described. My three oxen, 

 which would have been brought forward by other 

 food to be spoken of by and by, would be tied up ii> 



