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furrows nicely ihovelled; the quantity of feed near 

 twenty .pounds to the Irifh acre. Cabbage-feed is 

 fometimes fown on ground, from which a crop of early 

 potatoes has been talcen; this is a very beneficial way, 

 as three crops may be had from the fame ground in 

 ; wo years, the plants being drawn in time to make 

 room for fpring corn. The other feafon for fowing 

 thefe feeds is in ipring, to anfwer for the fummer 

 planting. Farmers, who fow any quantity of land ia 

 this way, often fell their whole crop to perfons, whofe 

 occupation it is to carry the plants to the different rnar-r 

 kets, many of them at the diftanc'e of thirty or forty 

 miles. The different kinds of plants are tied up ia 

 bundles of 120 each, which are fold at various prices, 

 from four- pence to one {hilling per hundred, according 

 to the demand; kail plants are much cheaper, the feed 

 being generally faved here ; the cabbage-feed imported 

 from England, the price from 6s. 6d. to 'js. yd: per Ib. 

 The kind molt in demand are the early York or pom- 

 pet, and the fugar-loaf for fummer; the Savoy, large 

 Dutch cabbage, and kail of different kinds for winter. 

 The price, at which an acre of cabbage-plants fells, is 

 often very great ; fo much as thirty guineas have been 

 given ; when there is a profpeft of fcarcity the price is 

 much enhanced, as the early cabbage is the firfl vege- 

 table for ufe in fpring. 



Kail, as food for cattle, is amongft the moft bene- 

 ficial vegetables; by planting it at different feafons, a 



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