176 Cultivation of Arable Land. Cabbages After-culture of Crops. 



where they are three feet in breadth. This is done by ftaples for the purpofe in 

 the frame of the roller, a chain hooking the drill to them. The roller covers the 

 ridge which is drilling, and one in advance to be drilled by the next turn. The 

 work proceeds regularly in this manner ; four pieces of jack chain about two feet 

 in length being attached to the drill, and drawn after it in the centre, ferve to 

 cover the feed. The depth of depofiting the feed is regulated by preflure or 

 weights laid on the drill. When the plants arejuft above the ground, it is bene 

 ficial to drill foot over them by a properly contrived drill, in the proportion 

 of ten or twelve bufhels to the acre, as a prefervative againft the fly. 



The expence of planting out, as well as of all the other operations in crops 

 of this fort, muft be liable to vary greatly, according to the circumftances of 

 the foil, and the fituation in refpect to labourers. In Suffolk, according to the 

 writer of the Corrected Report of the Agriculture of that diftrict, it is in general 

 about three fhillings the acre ; but in other places it is frequently a little higher, 

 the whole charge of an acre being eftimated as fhewn below.* 



After-culture. There is fcarcely any fort of crop that derives more advan 

 tage from having the mould or foil frequently ftirred and applied to the roots of 

 the plants, than that of the cabbage. It is only by a due repetition of thefe ope 

 rations that the plants attain their moft perfect growth and fize. The work is 



* Expences of Cabbage Culture on one Acre. 



. s. d. 

 Charges for llent -- - - -0100 



Tythes - 1 6 



Poor rates - - - - -O13 



Ploughing land five times - - - 1 



Harrowing twice ------ -006 



Manuring - -- ---200 



Seed-bed and feed, &c. - o ] 6 



Planting out ----030 



Filling up deficiencies --. _ -006 



Hand-hoeings ----- -040 



Horfe work in hoeing ----040 



Cutting and cartage one fourth of a mile - - o 15 







In this eftimate, the whole of the expence of manure is, it is obferved, charged to the cabbage- 

 crop ; but the advantage ought properly to be divided, which would lefTen the expence considerably, 



