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roots command. Care should also be taken to 

 keep the tops of the ridges perfectly clean from 

 weeds by the hand-hoe : none should be? suffered 

 to grow ; for on this part of the management much 

 depends. 



SOW CABBAGE-SKF.D. 



This is the season of sowing for those crops that 

 arc transplanted in April. Plough a piece of well 

 fallowed land until it is as fine as a garden ; then 

 manure it amply with very rotten dung, and turning 

 it in, harrow in the seed ; a pound of seed to every 

 three acres of the intended crop. 



But a preparation superior to ploughing and 

 dunging, is that of paring and burning a thick coat 

 for plenty of ashes,, and adding a thin dressing of 

 very rotten dung ; turn them in together and roll 

 in the seed and bush-harrow. The plants thus 

 escape the. fly and slug. 



Having on former occasions mentioned the great 

 importance of this crop, the less is necc-ss.'irv at 

 present ; still, however, I must urge our young 

 farmer to determine to have as many August -sown 

 cabbages as he can want for cattle, sheep, and swine, 

 from the first of October to the last of December. 

 The size' they come to is superior to spring-sown 

 plants, but they will not, in general, last longer 

 than December. The use is however so great ; so 

 exceedingly valuable for autumnal fatting of oxen, 

 feeding cows, fatting wethers, feeding hoggit lambs, 

 and supporting the whole herd of swine, that one 

 may, without hazard, assert the farmer who does 



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