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growing fo much above the ground, it is more liable 

 to injury from froft, &c. than the red or large ~ green, 

 which grow more into the foil ; the Swedifh is the 

 mofl hardy of all, and as it fucceeds better than any 

 other by tranfplantation, it is very valuable on this ac- 

 count likewife, as, by having a nurfery of thefe, the 

 drills, if any part of them mifsj may be made good', 

 they fliould be fown in March, as they are of flower 

 growth than the others. 



Cabbages, as food for cattle, are even lefs in ufe 

 than turnips, though fuperior to them in produce and 

 in quality, when properly given. The management of 

 this vegetable is perfectly underftood, being cultivated 

 in every garden ; all that is wanting is to extend it to 

 the fields. Raifmg cabbage plants is in foine parts of 

 this county a very beneficial article of hufbandryj 

 many acres of the feed of the different kinds, both for 

 funamer and winter ufe, for the fupply of this and the 

 neighbouring counties, being fown every year. There 

 are two feafons for fowing thefe feeds; for thofe, which 

 are to Hand the winter, the time of fowing is from the 

 middle of July to the firfl week in Auguft (fometimes 

 later, but the fuccefs not fo certain). The rnpft ap- 

 proved mode of fowing is on a fallow, the manure foil 

 and lime, or dung, dung the better; the land is ploughed 

 in ridges before feed-time, then harrowed, the feed 

 fown j another flight harrowing is then given, and the 



furrows 



