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as bone dust or guano, should be used, applying a good 

 handful to each hill, but being careful, of course, to mix 

 it well with the soil for about nine or ten inches deep and 

 wide. In this way about 300 pounds per acre will be 

 needed, when 6,000 or 7,000 plants are set on an acre. 

 In our practice, we find nothing better than pure bone 

 dust and guano mixed together. For further information 

 on this subject, see Essay on Manures and Modes of 

 Application. 



TRANSPLANTING CABBAGE. 



In transplanting from the seed-bed to the open field in 

 summer, the work is usually done in a dry and hot sea- 

 son, (the end of June or July;) and here, again, we give 

 our oft-repeated warning of the absolute necessity of 

 having every plant properly firmed. If the planting is 

 well done with the dibber, it may be enough; but it is 

 often not well done, and as a measure of safety it is 

 always best to turn back on the rows after planting, and 

 press alongside of each plant with the foot. This is 

 quickly done, and it besides rests the planter, so that he 

 can with greater vigor start on the next row. 



In some sections of the country, particularly in the 

 New England States, six or eight Cabbage seeds are put 

 in the hills, and when the plants are of the height of two 

 or three inches they are thinned out to one plant in each 

 hill. This we think not only a slower method, but is 

 otherwise objectionable, inasmuch as it compels us to 

 place the manure in the ground for three or four 

 weeks before the plant can take it up, to say nothing of 

 the three or four weeks' culture necessary to be done 

 before the seedlings in the hill get to the size of the 

 plants when set out. 



The cultivation of late Cabbage is in all respects similar 



