1 30 RUTA BAGA CULTURE. Part I. 



149. From the first of December to the first of 

 February, Mangle VVurzle and White Turnips 

 would keep the sheep and cattle and breeding sows 

 plentifully ; for the latter will live well upon 

 Mangle Wurzle ; and my hundred hogs, intended 

 for fatting would be much more than half idi upon 

 the carrots and parsnips. I should, however, 

 more probably, keep my parsnips 'till spring, and 

 mix the feeding with carrots with the feeding with 

 corn, for the first month, or fifteen days, with re- 

 gard to the fatting hogs. None of these hogs would 

 require more than three bushels of corn each to 

 finish them completely. My other three hundred 

 bushels would be for sows giving suck ; for the 

 Ewes, now and then in wet weather ; and for other 

 occasional purposes. 



130. Thus all my hay and oats and wheat and 

 rye might be sold, leaving me the straw for litter. 

 These, surely, would pay the rent and the labour ; 

 and, if I am told, that I have taken no account of the 

 mutton and lamb and pork that my house would de- 

 mand, neither have I taken any account of a hun- 

 dred summer pigs, which the fourteen sows would 

 have, and which would hardly fail to bring two hun- 

 dred dollars. Poultry demand some food; but, 

 three parts of their raising consists of care ; and, 

 if I had nobody in my house to bestow this care, I 

 should, of course, have the less number of mouths 

 to feed. 



151. But, my horses. Will not they swallow my 

 hay and my oats ? No : for 1 want no horses. But, 

 am I never to take a ride, then ? Ay, but, if I do, 

 I have no right to lay the expense of it to the ac- 

 count of the farm. I am speaking of how a man 

 may live by and upon a farm. If a merchant spend 

 a thousand a year, and gain a thousand, does he 

 say, that his traffick has gained him nothing ? When 

 men lose money hy farming, as they call it, they for- 

 get, that itisnotthe/anmwo-, but other expenses that 

 take away their money. It is, in fact, they that 



