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hay ground, aided by my three acres of early cab- . 
bages, which are now ready to begin cutting, or rather 
pulling. The weight of the crop may be made very 
great indeed. Ten thousand plants will stand upon 
an acre, in 4 feet ridges, and every plant ought to 
weigh three pounds at least. I have shown before, 
how advantageously a crop of Rula Baga might fol- 
low these cabbages, and so might a crop of buck- 
wheat. My cabbages, together with my hay fields, 
and grain fields after harvest, with about 40 or 50 
waggon loads of lluta Baga greens, would carry my 
stock well till December, (cabbages being planted at 
diflercnt times,) and from December to February, 
Mangel Wurtzel, or scarcity, with white turnips, 
would keep my sheep, cattle and breeding sows plen- 
tifully ; and my 100 fattening hogs would be more 
than half fat upon the carrots and parsnips; or I 
should keep my parsnips over till spring, and supply 
their place with corn for the fattening hogs ; which 
would consume about 3 bushels to each hog to com- 
plete their fattening, the remainder should be reserv- 
ed for sows when giving milk, or the ewes occasion- 
ally. Thus all my hay and oats, and wheat, and rye, 
might be saved and sold, leaving me the straw for lit- 
ter ; these surely would pay the rent or interest and 
taxes and labour. 
“ If it should be objected that 1 have taken no ac- 
count of the mutton, beef and pork my house would 
consume, neither have 1 taken any account of the 100 
summer pigs which the 14 sows would bring, and 
which would be worth 200 dollars.” 
Mr. Gobbet goes on to state, “ that his stock would, 
in one shape or another, give him more manure than 
would amount in ulility to a thousand tons weight of 
common yard manure, which would give 10 tons to 
the acre annually and thus concludes ; “It is better 
to have one aerp of good crop, than two acres of bad. 
If the one acre can, by double the manure, and dou- 
ble the labour in tillage, be made to produce as much 
