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mainly done in the fall and winter, when other work is 

 slack : and it has the great advantage of coming in early, 

 when there is a demand for ready money to pay for labor, 

 &c. 



Five hundred tomato plants maybe started in the kitchen 

 window, or in a small hot-bed, and by the middle of April 

 they may be pricked out in one end of the lettuce frame. As 

 early in May as the danger of frosts has passed, they should 

 be set out at intervals of fifteen inches along the foot of the 

 fence on the north and west sides of the field, to be trained 

 up against it (tacked fast), and kept trimmed to single 

 stems. At a height of six feet they should be pinched off 

 and their growth kept close. They should be planted in a 

 very rich soil, and well watered. They can hardly fail to 

 produce early crops, and ought to sell for $75 to $100. 



Now we come to the management of the field crops. 



If we could only raise cabbages year after year on the 

 same land, our business would be a very simple one. We 

 might take two crops yearly (an early and a late one) of the 

 most profitable and easily raised vegetable on our list. 



But, unfortunately, one crop in two years is all we can 

 reasonably hope for, as the " club-foot " will surely attack an 

 immediately succeeding crop on the same ground, and our best 

 plan is to arrange to grow as many cabbages as we safely 

 can making this point our constant aim and to occupy 

 the land as profitably as possible the rest of the time. 



Therefore, the field should be divided into two equal parts, 



