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Scotch cabbages, if they be the true flat-topt 

 firm kind, are never affected by froft, a few of 

 the outfide leaves excepted. On land not worth 

 more than twelve (hillings per acre, I have had 

 fifty-four tons per acre. . An ox will in common 

 eat about two hundred pounds in 24 hours. — 

 Twenty oxen therefore may be kept near five 

 weeks on an acre of cabbages of that weight; but 

 as the crops in general are not fb large, we will 

 reckon only a month, which will be cheaper than 

 a fcore of oxen can be kept on any other food. 



A fheep of twenty pounds a quarter will eat 

 fifteen pounds of Scotch cabbages in twenty-four 

 hours. An acre will therefore maintain two hun- 

 dred fheep a full month. 



When cows and oxen are fed with cabbages, 

 their dung is more in proportion than when fed 

 with turnips, which go off more in urine; or than 

 with hay, which is of too dry a fubftance. If the 

 cabbages are planted in rows three feet apart, the 

 intervals may eafily be kept free from weeds by 

 the horfe-hoe, and the roots of the plants will 

 receive great benefit by the ground being thus 

 loofened about them. Cabbages, being a melio- 

 rating crop, do not impoverifh the land nearly (6 

 much as grain, 



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