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ger of becoming frozen. When building a cellar it is well 

 to arrange it so that the door will open directly into the 

 sheep barn. This will make it not only convenient, but will 

 reduce to a minimum all danger of the roots freezing while 

 being handled. 



Cabbage. 



Cabbage grows more or less satisfactory in all parts of 

 the United States.' Our neighbors, the Canadians, are fully 

 alive to the value of this plant as a sheep food, and they 

 raise them somewhat extensively for their use. Cabbage is a 

 sheep food that where once tried almost always finds favor 

 among the owners and raisers of stud sheep. In many re- 

 spects cabbage is superior and preferable to rape as a sheep 

 food; especially is this so late in the fall of the year, as then 

 a few thousand heads stored away can be fed to advantage 

 when frost makes it dangerous to allow sheep to partake of 

 rape. Many tons of cabbage can be raised on an acre of 

 ground, and although there is sometimes much trouble ex- 

 perienced in getting the plants well started in dry summers, 

 they are nevertheless a very profitable and desirable crop for 

 the flockmaster to raise. 



Thousand-Headed Kale. 



Thousand-headed Kale is a plant belonging to the cabbage 

 family. This plant grows to an enormous size and furnishes 

 one of the most succulent, appetizing, healthful and fattening 

 rations either for cattle or sheep known to stock-raisers. As 

 before intimated, Thousand-headed Kale grows to an im- 

 mense size and its enormous stalk growing to a great height 



