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CABBAGES. 



[AUG. 



V/HKAT AMONGST TURNIPS. 

 , Mr. Walker, a considerable farmer at Harpley, 

 in Norfolk, invented and executed on a large scale,, 

 one of the most singular practices that I have met 

 with : that of hoeing in wheat seed at the second 

 hoeing of his turnips on sand land. The \vheat 

 got up well, and was not damaged by the sheep 

 feeding the turnips, but, on the contrary, if fed in 

 a dry season and not too late, improved ; by this 

 method he got crops of three quarters an acre with- 

 out the ex pence, of a shilling in tillage. I viewed 

 some of them with much pleasure. A singular uk i a, 



that may be applicable with great profit on certain 



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soils and in certain cases. He practised it so c 

 tensively as to lessen the number of his horses 

 consequence of it. 



CABBAGES. 



The beginning of this month, the second horse- 

 hoeing should be given to the Midsummer planted 

 crop of cabbages : the earth thrown into a ricUi- 

 in the middle of each interval, by the first, should 

 now be split by the double mould-board ploiiLi 

 and thrown half to one row, and half to the otjicr : 

 this earth, which has been some time exposed to 

 tiui weather, u ill be in fj; r for the young 



fibr. pread in ; iur should it be stir- 



ins : for the cabba 

 is a plant of such a luxuriant growth, that the 

 r to follow the well pulverized land 

 thus thrown up, and the cabbages \\ill certainly be 

 of a size, proportioned to the quantity wf food the 



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