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are now going to see. When you plant out your cab- 

 bages at the out-set, put first a row of Early Yorks, 

 then a row of Sugar-loaves, and so on throughout 

 the piece. Of course, as you are to use the Early 

 Yorks first, you will cut every other row ; and the 

 Early Yorks that you are to plant in summer will 

 go into the intervals. By-and-by the Sugar-loaves 

 are cut away, and in their place will come Swedish 

 turnips, you digging and manuring the ground as in 

 the case of the cabbages : and, at last, you will find 

 about 16 rods where you will have found it too late, 

 and unnecessary besides, to plant any second crop of 

 cabbages. Here the Swedish- turnips will stand in 

 rows at two feet apart, (and always a foot apart in the 

 row,) and thus you will have three thousand turnips; 

 and if these do not weigh five pounds each on an 

 average, the fault must be in the seed or in the man- 

 agement. 



125. The Swedish turnips are raised in this man- 

 ner. You will bear in mind the four rods of ground 

 in which you have sowed and pricked out your cab- 

 bage plants. The plants that will be left there will, 

 in April, serve you for greens, if you ever eat any, 

 though bread and bacon are very good without greens, 

 and rather better than with. At any rate, the pig, 

 which has strong powers of digestion, will consume 

 this herbage. In a part of these four rods you will, in 

 March and April, as before directed, have sown and 

 raised your Early Yorks for the summer planting. 

 Now, in the last week of May, prepare a quarter of a 

 rod of this ground, and sow it, precisely as directed 

 for the Cabbage-seed, with Swedish turnip-seed ; and 

 sow a quarter of a rod every three days, till you have 

 sowed two rods. If the fly appear, cover the rows 

 over in the day-time with cabbage leaves, and take 

 the leaves off at night ; hoe well between the plants ; 

 and when they are safe from the fly, thin them to four 

 inches apart in the row. The two rods will give you 

 nearly Jive thousand plants, which is 2000 more than 

 you will want From this bed you draw your plants 

 to transplant in the ground where the cabbages have 



