Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-06


much land, must be month longer in the
grDnnd. than the Ruta Basa, cost, ten
times as mueh for seed. requires fsur
times the expense in harvesting and pre-
serving, and is exposed to many risks
which the Ruta Baga rs not. Bot the va.
lue, the quality, the comparative good-
ness and efficiency; what are these p
We men have our prejudices and our po-
lltics. We are apt 10 suffer our opinions
on one subject to run in and mix them
se'ves with our opinions on other sub
jects. Let US therefore appeal to the OK
and the hog, who besides being endowed
with the best faculties for judging, have
ne interest in deciding contrary to t, nth.
Let then any man take q good Russia
turnip, give it chop with spade, and
toss it down with gallon Of potatoes be.
fore an OK. a hog, or q Sheep (it must
be clean for a sheep and if the animal
touches a potatoe until he has eaten up
every moreel Of the Russia turhip, | will
allow thai the potatoe is the best; but it
will be what ! have never seer, and what
am convinced. no man living ever saw.
I know that the finest oxen are fatted in
England ,rhoely upon Russia turnip; and
have seen them starve upon potatoes -
A neighbour Of mine attempted TO fat
upon potatoes. He was obliged to desis!.
His oxen lost as'h daily; and be resort
ed to the Russia turnip The duke Of
Richmond, 1.-THE best Of good farmers,)
made the trial with all possible care -
His oxen became poor, their legs swell
ed, and he was compelled to give up the
attempt. In short, an OF cannot be fat
ted upon potatoes, while it is notorious,
that thousands upon thousands are yearly
made as fat as they can walk upon the
Ruta Baga, without any hay. or corn, or
grain Of any sort Hogs will, rather than
die with hunger, eat raw pstatees but
did any man ever see them thrice on that
root, In its raw state ? Cooked, hogs
will thrive upon them but not as they
will upon Ruta Baga, which if steamed,
will make a good hog really fat and
solid
M. Q talks az il I had desired corn:
or as il l had pretended that Ruta Baga
was equal 70 corn, bushel for bu'hel.-
What nonsense! No, know well, that
there is nothing equal to corn, IS cattle
food but, surely, may believe, that
crop Of Ruta Baga is better han crsp
Of corn, if the former will yield eight
hundred bushels with less expense than
the latter will yield forty bushels.
My poor harmless hogs could not es-
cape Mr. Q. who does not want any bet
ter sort Of this animal than he already sees
in Pennsylvania. He has, then, the viz.
tue Of content in supreme degree for,
though saw hundreds upon hundreds
throughout the finest part of Pennsylva.
mia, l solemnly declare, that if project
ed a settlement in this country, and
could get no supply from "home," I
would not. for al those hundreds, ex-
change nine hogs that I now have, and
seven out Of the nine are but young pigs.
Prejudice is often too strong for Ieas"n
and Justice but it seldom overcomes in
tercst, when the latter is very manifest.
The hog. Of Long-Island are white mine
are black as q coal /; and unless | am very
much deceived, there will not in few
years, be many white hogs upon this
island. II l should remain in America
till I have any considerable number Of
pigs. / shall sell them, or some Of them,
if any body choose to buy them, alive, at
the market price Of the day. l want to
possess no monopoly, nor any advan-
tage over my ReighbOrs.
In the little book, aforementioned, l
have gwen an account OF these hogs OF
nine. Il remain here tor eight or nine
months longer, land l may, perhaps, Tor
year or more) will send one Of them
to New York, and then Mr.. Q. may, if
-; 4, himself IN a rart,;nfv