208 CABBAGES* [PART II. 



drought of the season. Nevertheless, L have 

 now about two acres of cabbages of the follow 

 ing description. Half an acre of the Early 

 Salisbury (earliest of all cabbages) and Early 

 York; about 3 quarters of an acre of the 

 Drum-head and other late cabbages ; and about 

 the same quantity of Green Savoys. The first 

 class are fully loaved, arid bursting : with these 

 I now feed my animals. These will be finished 

 by the time that I cut off my Swedish Turnip 

 Greens, as mentioned in Part 1. Paragraph 136. 

 Then, about mid-December, 1 shall feed with 

 the second class, the t)rum-heads and other 

 late Cabbages. Then, those which are not 

 used before the hard frosts set in, 1 shall put 

 up for use through the month of January. 



171. Aye! Put them up; but how? No 

 scheme that industry or necessity ever sought 

 after, or that experience ever suggested, with 

 regard to the preserving of cabbages, did I 

 leave untried last year ; and, in every scheme 

 but one I found some inconvenience. Taking 

 them up and replanting them closely in a slop 

 ing manner and covering them with straw; 

 putting them in pits ; hanging them up in a 

 barn; turning their heads downwards and 

 covering them with earth, leaving the roots 

 sticking up in the air : in short every scheme, 

 except one, was attended with great labour, 



