FEB.] CABBAGES. 8."; 



soils, and have the particular property of enabling 

 the farmers of clays and wet loams, to winter more 

 cattle than those of lighter lands can effect, by 

 means of that excellent root, the turnip. The 

 great evil of clay farms used to be, the want of 

 green winter food, which confined their stocks 

 to hay alone, and consequently prevented their 

 reaping those extended articles of profit, that arise 

 from numerous heads of cattle : and besides the 

 immediate benefit from the cattle, they lost also 

 the opportunity of raising large quantities of dung, 

 which never can be effected so well as by keeping 

 cattle. But all these evils are by the cabbage cul- 

 ture remedied, and the clay farmers put in pos- 

 session, in many respects, of an equality with the 

 turnip ones. If the difference between a summer- 

 fallow year on clay, and a turnip-fallow on light 

 land, be considered, the importance of this dis- 

 covery will appear sufficiently clear. Thirty shil- 

 lings an acre expence, of the first, are not an ex- 

 aggerated calculation ; but all is saved on the tur- 

 nip land, perhaps with profit ; and the barley, that 

 follows the turnips, is probably nearly as good as that 

 which succeeds the summer-fallow clay. Supposing 

 the following clover and wheat equal in both, accord- 

 ing to soil, still there remains a superiority in the 

 article manure ; for all that is raised by the con- 

 , sumption of the turnip crop is so much superiority to 

 the clay soil. But reverse the medal. Suppose cab- 

 bages to be introduced on the clay, and the scene is 

 Changed. That crop will exceed the turnips^ yield 



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