142 On raising Cabbages, 



On the 15th of October, they were first used as food for 

 ] 9 large hogs and 25 shoats, of three and four months 

 old, which were entirely fed on them (from the failure 

 of the pumpkin crop) for one month, and from that time 

 for another month they supplied abundant food for the 

 shoats. The nourishment from these three-fourths of 

 an acre, besides affording 400 of the best stalks for fa- 

 mily winter use, was computed to be equal to several 

 acres of corn or pumpkins. The hogs throve faster on 

 cabbages than on pumpkins, and the labour and expense 

 of cultivation was not greater than an equal space of corn 

 ground would require. The drought, affects the grovvth 

 of the cabbage less than any plant raised on a farm. 

 There was no superiority observed in the growth of the 

 plants t\\ ice transplanted ; on the contrary, there was an 

 evident inferiority, possibly owing to the delay in trans- 

 planting in expectation of rain, which caused the 700 

 plants, twice removed, to grow too large before the se- 

 cond transplantation. 



Your friend, respectfully, 



Wm. Coxe. 



Reuben Haines^ esq* 



