36 FARMER'S ASSISTANT, 



and slender stalks, so they do not require near so much 

 room. 



c These plants should have a second hoeing, about five 

 or six weeks after the first, which, if well performed in dry 

 weather, will entirely destroy the weeds, so that they will 

 require no further culture. 



* When there is not an immediate want of food, these 

 plants had better be kept for hard weather, or Spring- feed, 

 v/hen there may be a scarcity of other green food. If the 

 heads are cut off, and the stalks left in the ground, they 

 will shoot again early in the Spring, and produce a good 

 second crop in April; which may be either fed off, or per- 

 inited to run to seed, as is the practice where this is cul- 

 tivated for the seed. But, if the first is fed down, there 

 should be care taken that the cattle do not destroy the 

 stems, or pull them out of the ground. 



* As this plant is so hardy as not to be destroyed by frost; 

 so it is of great service, in hard Winters, for feeding of 

 Ewes: For, when the ground is so hard frozen, as that 

 turnips cannot be taken up, these plants may be cut off for 

 a constant supply. This will afford late food, after the 

 turnips are run to seed ; and, it it is afterwards permited 

 to stand for seed, one acre will produce as much as, at a 

 moderate computation, will sell for five pounds (about 

 twenty two dollars) clear of charges. 5 



The same Author adds: 



* The curled colewort, or Siberian borecole, is now more 

 generally esteemed than the former; being extreme hardy, 

 so it is never injured by cold; but is always sweeter in 

 severe Winters than in mild seasons.' 



Mr. Deane says: 



4 A Gentleman informs him that, in Boston, he made 

 several trials of this plant, and found that the Winter did 

 not injure it. It is fit for the table from December to 

 April.' 



Mr. D. says : 



< He made trial of three kinds of borecole, the last year, 

 in the latitude of 44. It grew very well till Winter; 

 but not one plant in fifty had any life in the following 

 Spring. The sorts were the green, the white, and the red. 

 But it is probable that in some parts of Newengland, and 

 in warm situations, this plant may be cultivated to advan- 

 tage ; though not in fields, it may in gardens.' 



It is believed that this plant might be advantageously 

 cultivated, in -the middle and more southerly States. 



BOT WORMS. The* manner in which these are produc- 

 ed is this: An insect somewhat resembling a Bee in its 

 head and neck, having a long crooked tail, may be seen 



