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Wurzel root) if quite ripe, is richer than a white 

 loaved cabbage ; but, it is not more easily pre 

 served, and will not produce a larger crop. 

 Cattle will eat the leaves, but hogs will not, 

 when they can get the leaves of cabbages. Ne 

 vertheless, some of this root may be cultivated. 

 It will fat an ox well ; and it will fat sheep 

 well. Hogs will do well on it in winter. I 

 would, if I were a settled farmer, have some of 

 it ; but, it is not a thing upon which I would 

 place my dependence. 



180. As to the time of sowing cabbages, the 

 first sowing should be in a hot-bed, so as to 

 have the plants a month old when the frost 

 leaves the ground. The second sowing should 

 be when the natural ground has become warm 

 enough to make the weeds begin to come up 

 freely. But, seed-beds of cabbages, and, in 

 deed, of every thing, should be in the open: 

 not_under a fence, whatever may be the aspect. 

 The plants are sure to be weak, if sown in 

 such situations. They should have the air 

 coming freely to them in every direction. In a 

 hot-bed, the seed should be sown in rows, three 

 inches apart, and the plants might be thinned 

 out to one in a quarter of an inch. This would 

 give about ten thousand plants in a bed ten feet 

 long, and Jive wide. They will stand thus to 

 get to a tolerable size without injuring each 



