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and, indeed, this, t5 a certain extent would be the 

 case with the sheep. However, as I mean that 

 every thing should be of a good size, and live well, 

 I make ample provision. 



147. 1 should want, then, to vpAseflve hundred 

 bushels of Ruta Baga upon each of my twelve 

 acres ; and, why should 1 not do it, seeing that I 

 have this year raised six hundred and forty bushels 

 upon an acre, under circumstances such as 1 have 

 stated them. 1 lay it down, therefore, that, with a 

 culture as good as tbat of Indian Corn, any man 

 may, on this Island (where Corn will grow) have 

 500 bushels to the acre. 



148. I am now come to the first of July. My 

 Oxen are fatted and disposed of. My Lambs are 

 gone to market, the last of them, a month ago. 

 My pigs are weaned and of a good size. And now 

 my Ruta Baga is gone. But, my Ewes, kept well 

 through the winter, will soon be fat upon the 12 

 acres of orchard and the hay ground, aided by my 

 three acres of early cabbages, which are now fit to 

 begin cutting, or, rather, pulling up. The weight 

 of this crop may be made very great indeed. Ten 

 thousand plants will stand upon an acre, in four feet 

 ridges, and every plant ought to weigh three pounds 

 at least. 1 have shown before how advantageous- 

 ly R-uta Baga transplanted would follow these 

 cabbages, all through the months of July, and Au- 

 gust. But, what a crop of Buckzi^heat would fol- 

 low such of the cabbages as came off in Jtdy ! My 

 Cabbages, together with my hay fields and grain 

 fields after Harvest, and about 40 or 50 wagon 

 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 de- 

 mand 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. 



