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cabbages for winter and spring 

 use. " Imnnediately previous to 

 the setting in of hard frost, take 

 up your cabbages and savoys, ob- 

 serving to do it in a dry day ; turn 

 their tops downward, and let them 

 remain so for a (ew hours, to drain 

 off any water that may be lodged 

 between their leaves; then make 

 choice of a ridge of dry earth in a 

 well sheltered warm exposure, 

 and plant them down to their 

 heads therein, close to one an- 

 other, having previously taken off 

 some of their loose hanging leaves. 

 Immediately erect over them a 

 low temporary shed, of any kind 

 that will keep them perfectly free 

 from wet, which is to be open at 

 both ends, to admit a current of 

 air in mild dry weather. These 

 ends are to be closed with straw 

 when the weather is very severe. 

 In this situation your cabbage will 

 keep in a high state of preserva- 

 tion till spring, for being kept per- 

 fectly free from wet, as well as 

 from the action of the sun, the 

 frost will have little or no effect 

 upon them. In such a place the 

 heads may be cut off as wanted, 

 and if frozen, soak them in spring, 

 well, or pump w.iter, for a few 

 hours previous to their being cook- 

 ed, which will dissolve the frost 

 and extract any disagreeable taste 

 occasioned thereby." 



Mr. M'Mahon prefers this mode 

 of preserving cabbages to placing 

 them in the ground with the roots 

 upwards, and says that the appli- 

 cation of straw immediately round 

 the heads is a bad practice, as the 

 straw will soon become damp and 

 mouldy, and will of course com- 



municate the disorder to the cab- 

 bages. 



Mr. Derby of Sa'em, Mass. 

 states his mode of preserving cab- 

 bages as follows. " I have select- 

 ed one of the most airy situations 

 on the farm, spread a few leaves 

 on the ground, to keep them clean, 

 and placed them upside down, 

 close to each other, and shook in 

 among them leaves sufficient to 

 cover them, leaving part of the 

 root projecting out, then threw on 

 just enough sea weed to prevent 

 the leaves blowing away." Mass. 

 Agr. Rep. vol. vii. p. 57. 



" To produce early Cabbages. — 

 In the spring, as soon as the 

 sprouts on the cabbage-stalks have 

 grown to the length of a plant fit 

 for setting, cut them out with a 

 small slice of the stalk, about two 

 inches long; and if the season 

 permit, plant them in a garden, 

 and the usual care will produce 

 good cabbages. Domestic Ency- 

 clopcedin. 



Mr. Francis Winship of Brighton, 

 Mass. received a premium from 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural So- 

 ciety in 1820, for the best crop of 

 cabbages, being thirty two tons 

 and two hundred weight, raised on 

 one acre of land. 



CALF, the young of a cow, 

 whether male or female. The 

 method of managing calves to ad- 

 vantage is of no small importance 

 to a farmer; for on the raising of 

 young stock, his living and wealth 

 in great measure depend, when 

 calves are designed for veal, they 

 should be taken from the cow the 

 next day after they are calved. 

 Let them suck only two teats dur- 



