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on the cabbage all the time, or they may also be given 

 access to a grass pasture, as may be convenient. If 

 given time enough, the sheep will eat the entire crop 

 save the stalks. 



Observations. i. Cabbage for sheep pasture 

 may be grown with special reason where the soil will 

 grow an abundance of rutabaga tops, but will not 

 produce good roots, and where severe early frosts 

 would injure rape. 



2. This crop will produce a very large amount 

 of pasture high in nutrition. 



