12 X COTTAGER'S CARDEN 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This mode of culture proves, that both 
potatoes and wheat can be produced alter- 
nately upon the same land for a long course 
of years, provided, that a small quantity of 
manure be every year used for the potatoes ; 
and it shews that a cottager may procure 
food from a small portion of land by his own 
labour, without any expense or assistance 
Tor labour.* 
♦ If cottagers families could be employed in garden- 
husbandry, without interruption of the cottager's daily- 
labour, the benefit to them and to the country, and the 
advantage of breeding up children so as to be industrious 
and useful, would exceed all' calculation. At the Bishop 
of Durham's, at Mongewell, he has allotted a little plot 
of ground, for the adjoining cottagers to cultivate, ac- 
cording to their means and industry. The produce of 
; the preceding summer upon half a rood of this ground 
'(the rent being two shillings and sixpence) is as follows : 
Five gallons and a half of turnip seed, at 5s. 
per, gallon . - - " 1 7 ^ 
Six sacks of potatoes - - - 1 !° 0 
Pease and cabbages for the use of the cottager and 
his family. 
7th November 1S05. 
