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sort of beans ; grown not for the sake of the 

 seed, but for the green herb, as cattle food. 

 They are generally sowed early enough to 

 allow of being fed off, or cut, so as to make 

 room for a crop of turnips afterwards; or, if 

 the land is to be prepared for a wheat crop, 

 they are ploughed in as manure. 



Cow CABBAGES, called also drum-heads, are 

 grown on some farms in England to a conside- 

 rable extent, and to a very large size. We 

 know little about them in this country for cattle. 

 The original stock, from which the cultivated 

 cabbage is derived, and from which also 

 colewort, borecole, cauliflowers, and brocoli, 

 have been obtained, grows on cliffs by the sea- 

 side, in the counties of Kent, Cornwall, York- 

 shire, and in Wales. In the wild state, we 

 should scarcely know this plant as a cabbage ; 



