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horses; and they never complain of " the 

 labour." The labour of an acre of cabbages is 

 not half so much as that of an acre of Indian 

 Corn. The bringing in of the crop and apply 

 ing it are not more expensive than those of the 

 corn. And will any man pretend, that an acre 

 of good cabbages is not worth three times as 

 much as a crop of good corn? Besides, if 

 early cabbages, they are off and leave the land 

 for transplanted Swedish Turnips, for Late 

 Cabbages, or for Buckwheat; and, if late cab 

 bages, they come after early ones, after wheat, 

 rye, oats, or barley. This is what takes place 

 even in England, where the fall is so much 

 shorter, as to growing weather, than it is in 

 Long Island, and, of course, all the way to 

 Georgia. More to the North, in the latitude 

 of Boston, for instance, two crops of early cab 

 bages will come upon the same ground ; or a 

 crop of early cabbages will follow any sort of 

 grain, except Buckwheat. 



192. In concluding this Chapter I cannot 

 help strongly recommending farmers who may 

 be disposed to try this culture, to try it fairly. 

 That is to say, to employ true seed, good land, 

 and due care; for, as " men do not gather 

 " grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles," so 

 they do not harvest cabbages from stems of 

 rape. Then, as to the land, it must be made 



