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was very dry and this crop on a high, steep hill, yet ultimately I 

 had one of the finest crops of Essex, Wakefield, Winegstadt, 

 VVyman and Schweinfurt Quintal cabbages it was ever my good 

 fortune to raise, indeed of the Schweinfurt I think in the many 

 years I have raised them I never had so fine a crop. 



The cost of the manure was as follows : — 

 25 Barrels Hen Manure at $1.00 per bbl. $25.00 



12 Barrels Bone, I8olbs each at $22.50 per ton, 24.30 

 Kanite, about .... 12.00 



Expense of Composting, - - - 5.00 



Cost of teaming Manure, - - - 5.00 $71.30 



It will be seen that the cost of the manure on the ground and 

 mixed, was about twenty-four dollars for each acre of cabbage. 

 As any farmer of experience knows, as a rule, to insure a first 

 rate crop of each of these varieties of cabbage, at least six cords 

 of good stable manure to the acre would be required ; and as 

 every farmer of experience also knows, such manure landed in 

 the field costs on the average ten dollars to the cord, which would 

 make the cost for each acre of cabbages $60.00, on the side of 

 barn manure, and for the three acres $180.00, against $71.30 on 

 the side of the mixture. 



But the common farmer may say that the six cords will leave 

 residue in the ground which the grass crop will find when the 

 land is laid down. True, but so will the mixture leave consider- 

 able of phosphate of lime, potash and salt behind it. But rais- 

 ing cabbages on such a scale belongs to market farming rather 

 than to common farming, and those who follow it only at long 

 intervals lay land down ( grass is the poorest return they get ) 

 and meanwhile for many years every acre receives just about as 

 much manure one year as another but little or no account being 

 taken of what might be left in the soil by the preceeding crop. . 



JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 



