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bages is not worth three times as much as a crop of 

 good corn ? Besides, if early cabbages, they are off 

 and leave the land for transplanted Swedish Turnips, 

 for Late Cabbages, or for Buck-wheat; and, if late 

 cabbages, they come after early ones, after wheat, rye, 

 oats, or barley. This is what takes place even in Eng- 

 land, where the fall is so much shorter, as to gTO^\'ing 

 weather, than it is in Long Island, and, of course, all 

 the way to Georgia. More to the North, in the lati- 

 tude of Boston, for instance, two crops of early cab- 

 bages will come upon the same ground ; or a crop of 

 early cabbages will follow any sort of grain, except 

 Buck-wheat. 



192. In concluding this Chapter I cannot help strongly 

 recommending farmers who may be disposed to try 

 this culture, to try \i fairly. That is to say, to employ 

 true seed, good land, and due care ; for, as " men do 

 " not gather grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles," so 

 they do not harvest cabbages from stems of rape. Then, 

 as to the land, it must be made good and rich, if it be 

 not in that state already ; for a cabbage will not be fine, 

 where a white turnip will ; but as the quantity of land, 

 wanted for this purpose, is comparatively very small, 

 the land may easily be made rich. The after-culture 

 of cabbages is trifling. No weeds to plague us with 

 handrwork. Two good ploughings, at most, will suf- 

 fice. But ploughing after planting out is necessary ; 

 and, besides, it leaves the ground in so fine a state. 

 The trial may be on a small scale, if the farmer please. 

 Perhaps it were best to be such. But, on whatever 

 scale, let the trial be a, fair trial. 



193, I shall speak again of the use of cabbages, when 

 I come to speak of Hogs and Cows. 



