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think there is a cabbage on the piece that has not advanced so 

 far as to form a head. This variety of Savoy I consider of 

 superior excellence for market purposes, from the fact of its 

 being so reliable for heading and making so large a head on so 

 short a stump. This piece was raised on an old onion bed, 

 hence the quantity of manure to the acre was less than I am 

 in the habit of applying, it being at the rate of about four cords 

 to the acre. The quality of the manure was very superior, it 

 being made up of a compost of barn manure, sea manure, glue 

 manure and fish heads and sound bones. The seed was 

 planted about the 20th of June in the hills, which were two 

 feet apart, while the rows were three feet apart. The crop 

 received the usual treatment of three cultivatings and three 

 hoeings. The cabbage worm was fought with a compound 

 made up of twenty parts air-slaked lime, three parts super- 

 phosphate and one part of carbolate of lime. The compound 

 appeared to be efficacious, but this, my first test, demonstrates 

 nothing, although my acre of Marblehead Mammoth Drum- 

 head, to which it was applied several times during the season, 

 appeared to receive a decided benefit. 



Cost of Production. 

 Manure teamed and spread, -t cords, 

 Ploughing of land, 

 Harrowing and cultivating. 

 Marking out and planting, 

 Seed, - _ - . 



Thinning out, - - - 



Applying compound and cost of, 

 Three hoeings, 

 Three cultivatings, - - - 



Hire of land, . _ . 



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