180 Cultivation of Arable Land. Cabbages Application of Crops of. 



of food will go much farther when carefully applied in the yard, than vvrrn con- 

 fumed on the land, as much waftemuft be unavoidable in the latter method.* 



In the fattening of neat cattle, an acre of good cabbages may be nearly fuf- 

 ikient for three beads of from forty ro fifty ftone each wrueh have been grazed 

 in the paftures during the fummer. A middle-fized bullock confumes, in ge 

 neral, of this fort of food, in the proportion of about one hundred pounds in 

 twelve hours; but much in this bufincfs mvtfl: conftantly depend on the Hate of 

 the ftomach and the methods of feeding the animals. It would, however, feem 

 probable, that cabbages poflefs the property of fattening cattle, not only more 

 cxpeditioufly but in lefs proportion than turnips ; an acre of the former having 

 been found to fatten one in four more than the fame extent of the latter crop.f 



In feeding this crop off with fheep it has been obferved, that fuch as weigh 

 about twenty pounds the quarter confume in the proportion of from eight to ten 

 pounds in twelve hours, half an acre being nearly fufficient for one hundred 

 fheep when the crop is good. The cabbages, when run to feed in the fpring 

 months, are alfo confumed with avidity by thefe animals ; but this practice 

 fhould never be attempted, as much injury muft always be fuftained by the land. 

 The refufe of cabbage crops may, however, fometimes be ufefully applied in 

 the more early fpring months, before they begin to run, to the feeding of lamb 

 ing ewes, as by fuch means the quantity of milk is much increafed, and the 

 lambs of courfe better fupported.| 



Store hogs are likev/ife faid to be kept upon this vegetable with advantage, and 

 to prefer it to turnips. In the trials that we have been enabled to make with the 

 finer breeds of this fort of animals, we have not, however, found it a beneficial 

 mode of applying fuch crops, as they conftantly rejed: both the cabbage and tur 

 nip for moft other forts of food, and, unlefs prepared by heat, feldom eat them 

 up clean. 



Though few experiments have been made in the feeding of horfes with this fort 

 of food, it is probable that, after being chopped, cut, or fhaved down by means 

 of a ftock or other knife, and blended with fome fort of dry cut fodder, it might 

 be employed with great advantage both in the faving of other more valuable kinds 

 of food and in promoting the condition of the animals ; as, from their containing 

 much faccharine matter, there can be little doubt of their poflefling a highly nu. 

 tritious quality. In this ufe, the more fweet and delicate forts of cabbage ought 



* Correded Report of Suffolk. t Bath Papers. 



% For by in Annals of Agriculture, 



