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more profit, and enable the farmer to make more 

 manure. For these reasons, the recommendation 

 of cabbages appears to be extremely well-founded ; 

 and consequently, those farmers who possess the 

 proper soils, cannot determine too soon to enter 

 on the cultivation of them. 



But there is another circumstance attending some 

 sorts of cabbages, which make them highly eligible 

 on all farms, which is their lasting for sheep feed 

 longer in the spring. Ruta baga, turnip cabbage, 

 cabbage turnip, and green boorcole, are in per- 

 fection in April, and last even to May, the most 

 pinching period in the year. Turnips will do no 

 such thing ; consequently those farmers who pos- 

 sess turnip soils, should, on no account, slight the 

 culture of cabbages for this purpose. 

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Care must be taken to cut wafer-Furrows throng 

 all new ploughed lands, as soon as the fields are 

 finished. Saving a trifle of money in the omis^io 

 of such a necessary work, often hazards a crop, a 

 is sure greatly to damage it, In making them, t 

 descents and variations of the surface are to be ke 

 in view, so that no water can lodge in any pa 

 however wet the weather. The old water-furro 

 in the wheat-fields arc also to be examined, as well 

 as those in the fallows ploughed in autumn. If 

 they have been filled at any place, by the crumb- 

 ling in of the moulds after frosts, or by the pas- 

 sage of moles, or other accidents, they must be 



cleaned 



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