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best preservative is to seek for the 

 insect itself which will be readily 

 found at the root of the plant last 

 destroyed. 



To destroy lice on cabbages, 

 they should be washed with strong 

 brine, or sea water, or smoke 

 should be made among them with 

 straw, sulphur, tobacco, &c. But 

 the hard frosts in autumn do not 

 fail to subdue them. A moderate 

 frost will very much thin them. 



!n washing plants with brine, 

 care should be taken not to make 

 the solution too strong, lest you 

 kill the vegetable as well as the 

 insect. See Insect, 



If cabbages grow near to a barn 

 yard, or other yard where cattle 

 are lodged, the under leaves, 

 when they begin to decay, may 

 be taken olf, and thrown to them. 

 The plants will not be at all in- 

 jured, and they are an excellent 

 food for cattle, and will increase 

 the milk of cows. But the least 

 decayed of them should go to the 

 cows, lest they give the milk an 

 ill taste. Much account is made 

 of cabbages in England for feed- 

 ing cattle in the winter. But the 

 difficulty of preserving them alters 

 the case with regard to us. They 

 can gather them there as they have 

 occasion to use them, through the 

 winter, and in the spring. 



In procuring seeds for raising 

 young cabbage plants, great care 

 should be taken, that it be obtain- 

 ed from the most perfect plants of 

 the dilTerent kinds, and such as 

 have seeded without any other 

 variety of the same tribe blowing 

 near them, as it is, perhaps, only 

 in this method, that they are ca- 



pable of being kept of a true kind. 

 It is therefore best to have the 

 plants, intended for seed, planted 

 out by themselves, at a distance 

 from others. New seed is to be 

 preferred, as it not only vegetates 

 much quicker, but is more to be 

 depended on. Care should be 

 taken that young cabbage plants 

 are properly thmned out, when- 

 ever they come up too thick. 

 Mr. Young advises to sow three 

 ounces of seed to each square 

 perch, well raked in. For the 

 manner of transplanting cabbages, 

 see VI r. Cobbett's method of set- 

 ting Ruta Baga, under the article 

 Turnip. 



In regard to the distance of 

 planting, it must depend in a great 

 measure upon the strength and 

 goodness of the soil, and the na- 

 tural size of the variety of the 

 cabbage that is employed. An 

 English writer says, it is the prac- 

 tice in some districts, where this 

 culture is well performed, to set 

 them out regularly at the distance 

 of three feet each way. Mr, 

 M'Mahon directs to set all the 

 early heading kinds at the distance 

 of two feet and an half every way, 

 and all the late sorts at that of 

 three feet. 



It is asserted in Dr. Rees' Cy- 

 clopaedia that " cabbages possess 

 the property of fattening cattle, 

 not only more expeditiously, but 

 in less proportion than turnips ; 

 an acre of the latter having been 

 found to fatten one in four more 

 than the same extent of the latter 

 crop." 



Mr. M'Mahon recommends the 

 following method for preserving 



