340 CABBAGES. [JUNE, 



breaks the whole arrangement of his farm, and he 

 is forced either to begin again, or to pursue that 

 pernicious husbandry of sowing two crops of white 

 corn running. He must either fallow for turnips 

 again, or take a crop of barley, and then turnips : 

 thus is he thrown out of his clover, though as im- 

 portant a crop as any on his farm, and launches 

 into a series of tillage, that cannot but prove very 

 expensive to him, without repaying the benefit that 

 the clover-course would have done. 



For these reasons, when the turnips fail, and 

 cabbages are not planted, the land should be laid 

 up in winter for barley, and the clover sown with 

 it, which will turn out far more profitable than 

 throwing in wheat. 



The cabbages planted in April, and hand-h 

 and horse -hoed in May, should now have th- 

 cond of each of those operations given : a hand- 

 hoeing the middle of the month, which must cut ( 

 up all weeds, arid break the earth well of the nar- 

 row slip on which the plants were left. Towards 

 the latter end, the double earth board plough should 

 go in the intervals, splitting the ridge thrown up in 

 May, and returning it to the rows. These opera- 

 tions will be of great utility to the crop. 



The cabbages drilled in April where to remain, 

 will demand much attention this month to keep 

 them at a proper distance, the tops of the ridges 

 well hand-hoed, and the intervals shimmed, that they 

 may be gradually reducing to a fine state of pulrj 

 veriaation. In all horse-hoed crops, these worksj 



should 



