Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-07-07
RUTA BAGA, OR SWEDISH TURNIP SEED,

y gentleman who has cultivated the Ruta Baea
for fifteen years without failing i'll single instance
TO obtain good crop, and who has i'll the course
of that time fully tested the value of the root
food for stock, and finds it superior to any other
has with his characteristic liberality deposited NJ
the Office OF the American Former large quantity
of the seed for general and gratuitous stribtion
Our Agricultural friends therefore, vino are will
ing to make trial of it requested to call or send
for of the seed.
The mode of cultivating Ruta Bags differs in no
respect from that OF common turnips, except per-
haps IN sowing the seed more thinly. The gentle
men who presented the seed above mentioned con
slders from the middle to the last of Au,,,st tho
best time for sowing the seed in this neighborhood
He has sowcd them after small grain and obtained
good crops by manuring and p!oughing in with
stnbble; the dung used should be well rottcd. or
spent ashes answer well.
He sows broadcast, and treats them by hoeing in
the same manner as the common white turnin
They should be left at the last hoeing, at least
foot apart; but distant will be better if tho
ground 10 rich and in good order, as IL ourbt nj
ways to be; the tops will spread luxuriautlv In
March, 1929, this gentleman left at our office =
couple OF these turnips which had remained in the
open ground all winter and were then i'll as sound
a state they were the fail before This is also
an important consideration, green food in win
ter is of great value for mich COWS, as we'll os
other stock. The gentleman alluded to, does not
consider the milk or butler in the least injured i'm
favour by the Ruta Baga; on tho contrary. he
thinks, both improved, not by the addition OF any
peculiar favour, but by increased richness; the
colour of the butter is certainly very much i'm
proved. The ease of cultivation and great weld
of crops, additional incentives to its adoption:
and to these may be added another of some i'm
portance to gardeners and others restricted in
ground--it can be raised a second crop on the
ground occupied in the spring by early Vegetables
such as peas, early green corn, &c, AS high as
500, and even $50 bushels of Ruta Bana turnips
have boon raised to the Among other ex
ccllent papers to be found in the previous volumes
of the American Farmer, the cultivation of
Ruta Baga, would refer to one by Judge Buel,
o. Albany, page 36l, VOL 6. We know of nothin o
more improvident and reproachful in the manage,
mcnt of Southern farms, than the almost univcr-
sal failure to take measures for supply of roots
and vegetables such as turnips mangel wurtzel,
ruta baga, pumpkins, Sc for acner food for their
stock-at all events for their miica c0acs.-These
they leave in most to live dry corn -husks
dry straw, dry leaves-in word dry and empty
bellies, without covering to protect them fl rom
the peltings of the pitcss storm and without even
regular supply of pure cold water and yet when
| this great manager this Lord all around him
takes his scat at the breakast-tabc without plat
of fresh butter, pot of fresh cream ten to one
if he docs not look sour, and nsinuate rcproacl
of bad management against all but himself!