204 CABBAGES. [PART Jl. 



The grass has been very short indeed. A sort 

 of Grass-hopper, or cricket, has eaten up a con 

 siderable part of the grass and of all vege 

 tables, the leaves of which have come since the 

 month of June. I am glad, that this has been 

 the case ; for I now know what a farmer may do 

 ,in the worst of years ; and, when 1 consider 

 what the summer has been, I look at my Cab 

 bages and Ruta Baga with surprize as well as 

 with satisfaction. 



CABBAGES* 



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166. I had some hogs to keep, and, as my 

 Swedish Turnips (Ruta Baga) would be gone 

 by July, or before, 1 wished them to be suc 

 ceeded by cabbages. I made a hot-bed on the 

 20th of March, which ought to have been 

 made more than a month earlier; but, I had 

 been in Pennsylvania, and did not return home 

 till the 1 3th of March. It requires a little 

 time to mix and turn the dung in order to 

 prepare it for a hot-bed ; so that mine was not 

 a very good one ; and then my frame was 

 hastily patched up, and its covering consisted 

 of some old broken sashes of windows. A 

 very shabby concern ; but, in this bed I sowed 

 cabbages and cauliflowers. The seed came up, 

 and the plants, though standing too thick, 



