118 Cabbages. [Part II. 



sists of boiled garbage. But, it is not pretended, I 

 suppose, that dogs will not eat roast-beef; nor, is it, I 

 suppose, imagined, that they would not prefer the roast- 

 beef, if they had their choice ? Some people pretend, 

 that garbage and carrion are better for dogs than beef 

 and mutton are. That it is to say, it is better for us, 

 that they should live upon things, which we ourselves 

 loath, than that they should share with us. Self-hiterest 

 is, but too frequently, a miserable logician. 



177. However, with regard to cattle, sheep, and pigs, 

 as we intend to eat them, their claim to our kindness is 

 generally more particularly and irapartiall}" listened to 

 than that of the poor dogs ; though that of the latter, 

 founded, as it is, on their sagacity, their fidelity, their 

 real utility, as the guanlians of our folds, our home- 

 steads and our houses, and as the companions, or, 

 rather, the givers, of our healthful sports, is ten thousand 

 times more strong, than that of animals which live to 

 eat, sleep, and grow fat. But, to return to the cabbages, 

 the fact is, that all sorts of animals, which will eat them 

 at all, like the most delicate kinds best ; and, as some 

 of these are also the earliest kinds, they ought to be 

 cultivated for cattle. Some of the larger kinds may be 

 cultivated too; but, they cannot be got ripe till the fall 

 of the ^ear. Nor is the difference in the weight of the 

 crop so great as may be imagined. , On the same land, 

 that will bear a Drum-head of twenty powids, an Early 

 York, or Early Battersea will weigh fovr pounds; and 

 these may he fifteen inches asunder in the row, while 

 the Drum-head requires four feet. Mind, I always 

 suppose the rows to be four feet apart, as stated in the 

 First Part of this work, and for the reasons there stated. 

 Besides the advantages of having some cabbages early, 

 the early ones remain so little a time upon the ground. 

 Transplanted Swedish Turnips, or Buckwheat, or late 

 Cabbages, especially Savoys, may always follow them 

 the same jear upon the same land. My early cabbages, 

 this year, have oeen followed by a second crop of the 

 same, and now (mid-November) they are hard and 

 white and we are giving them to the animals. 



178. There is a convenience attending cabbages, 

 ^'hich attends no other «f the cattle-plants, namely, that 



