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amounted to seven dollars and eighty-nine 

 cents. But where one has plenty of good 

 strong land, and can put the cabbage on new 

 ground every year, he will find it one of the 

 most profitable of crops. The tastes of fallen 

 man lean toward cabbage almost as universally 

 as toward the onion, and there is a large de- 

 mand for it in every market. 



Carrots, though more truly a farm crop, de- 

 serve a place in the garden. The Long Orange 

 is the best variety. I give a little space to it 

 every year, and find that it pays well. During 

 the summer there is a demand for carrots 

 bunched like beets or radishes, and to meet this 

 it is perhaps best to plant the Early Horn 

 variety. The seed of the last-named kind 

 should be sown as soon as the frost is out. 

 But even for early use I would rather employ 

 the Long Orange, and if planted as soon as 

 possible in spring, it will meet the summer de- 



