■54 THE farmer’s manual. 
dress in the hole an acre of Indian-corn, or potatoes, 
and upon an average double your crop ; this is no 
small advantage ; and a careful farmer will not neglect 
it. Ten loads of such manure, spread upon your grass 
grounds in autumn, may be considered equal to 13 or 
30 loads of farm-yard manure laid on in the spring, 
especially if the season in the spring, or summer fol- 
lowing, should be dry. The best form for construct- 
ing your farm-yard, either with or without sheds, and 
the best mode of preparing the farm-yard in autumn, 
to receive the stock for winter, and collect the great- 
est quantity of manure, I shall treat of at large under 
the article Stock. 
RUTA BAGA. 
I have seen in the month of June, the yellow 
Sweedish Lapland turnip, known by the name of 
Ruta Baga, as fair and clear from pith, as when dug 
in autumn. This turnip is a rich, well flavoured, nu- 
tricious root, and an object worthy the attention of 
the farmers of our country. They are now becom- 
ing common, and seed, or the roots for seed, may 
easily be obtained. Let every farmer set in this 
month, in his garden, as many roots as will stock such 
lands as will answer for this turnip, their extra price, 
and demand in market, together with the extra ad- 
vantage of their keeping fresh and sound over to sum- 
mer, render them valuable, both for the table, and for 
cows, hogs and ewes. Every means which the far- 
mer can multiply upon his farm for the support of 
animal life, goes so far to save his corn and grain, and 
these become ready cash in the best market, and thus 
increase the means of raising the value of the farm, 
by manure and tillage. 
This turnip may be raised to advantage upon such 
stubble lands as you may wish to turn in, as a ferti- 
lizing tillage, without much damage to such land, if 
you sow 1,2, or 3 bushels of plaster to the acre, at 
