. III.] CABBAGES. 



177. However, with regard to cattle, sheep, 

 and pigs, as we intend to eat them, their claim 

 to our kindness is generally more particularly 

 and impartially listened to than that of the poor 

 dogs ; though that of the latter, founded, as it is, 

 on their sagacity, their fidelity, their real utility, 

 as the guardians of our folds, our home-steads 

 and our houses, and as the companions, or, ra 

 ther, the givers, of our healthful sports, is ten 

 thousand times more strong, than that of ani 

 mals which live to eat, sleep, and grow fat. 

 But, to return to the cabbages, the fact is, that 

 all sorts of animals, which will eat them at all, 

 -like the most delicate kinds best ; and, as some 

 of these are also the earliest kinds, they ought 

 to be cultivated for cattle. Some, of the larger 

 kinds may be cultivated too; but, they cannot 

 be got ripe till the fall of the year. Nor is the 

 difference in the weight of the crop so great as 

 may be imagined. On the same land, that will 

 bear a Drum-head of twenty pounds, an Early 

 York, or Early Battersea will weigh four 

 pounds; and these may be fifteen inches asun 

 der in the row, while the Drum-head requires 

 four feet. Mind, I always suppose the rows to 

 be four feet apart, as stated in the First Part of 

 this work, and for the reasons there stated. 

 Besides the advantages of having some cab 

 bages early, the early ones remain so little a 



