10 A COTTAGERS GARDEN 
plants peas, beans, and a part with cab- 
bages; but has early potatoes and turnips 
the same year on the same ground. She 
sells her early potatoes and peas and cab- 
bages at Shrewsbury, and boils the turnips 
for her pig. The only other expense of 
feeding her pig, is two or three bushels of 
peas, and when fit to kill, it weighs about 
three hundred pounds. She buys it at the 
age of four or five months, about the month 
of February, and it is killed about the month 
ef January of the following year. 
When she first began this method of 
alternate crops, and for several years after, 
she depended on the neighbouring farmers 
for ploughing the land and harrowing, both 
for the potatoes and the wheat; but as 
the farmers naturally delayed to work for 
her, till their own work was chiefly over, 
her' land was not ploughed in proper time, 
or season. She has been now for the last 
six years independant of the farmer ; and 
the planting the potatoes, and the mode of 
taking them up, is sufficient to prepare the 
land for wheat, which she generally sows 
