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June you will have turned-in cabbages, and soon 

 you will have the Early Yorks solid. And by the 

 first of June you may get your cow. one that is about 

 to calve, or that has just calved^ and at this time such 

 a cow as you will want will not, thank God, cost 

 above five pounds. 



121. I shall speak of the place to keep her in, and 

 of the manure and litter, by-and-by. At present I 

 confine myself to her mere food. The 36 rods, if 

 the cabbages all stood till they got solid, would give 

 her food for 200 days, at 80 pounds weight per day, 

 which is more than she would eat. But you must 

 use some, at first, that are not solid ; and, then, some 

 of them will split before you can use them. But you 

 will have pigs to help off with them, and to gnaw 

 the heads of the stumps. Some of the sugar-loaves 

 may have been planted out in the spring; and thus 

 these 36 rods will get you along to some time in Sep- 

 tember. 



122. Now mind, in March, and again in April, 

 sow more Early Yorks, and get them to be fine stout 

 plants, as you did those in the fall. Dig up the 

 ground and manure it, and, as fast as you cut cab- 

 bages, plant cabbages ; and in the same manner and 

 with the same cultivation as before. Your last plant- 

 ing will be about the middle of August,- with stout 

 plants, and these will serve you into the month of 

 November. 



123. Now we have to provide from December to 

 May inclusive ; and that, too, out of this same piece 

 of ground. In November there must be, arrived at 

 perfection, 3000 turnip plants. These, without the 

 greens, must weigh, on an average, 5 pounds, and 

 this, at 80 pounds a day, will. keep the cow 187 days; 

 and there are but 182 days in these six months. The 

 greens will have helped out the latest cabbages to 

 carry you through November, and perhaps into De- 

 cember. But for these six months, you must depend 

 on nothing but the Swedish turnips. 



124. And now, how are these to be had upon the 

 same ground that bears the cabbages ? That we 



