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ANALYSES OF FIVE VARIETIES OF CABBAGE. 



Mr. J. U. Salisbury, assistant in the Laboratory 

 of Prof. Emmons oi' Albany, has made a valuable 

 contribution to the farming and gardening interest of 

 the United States, through the pages of the December 

 number of the American Journal of Agriculture and 

 Science, by publishing the results of ten analyses, five 

 of the organic ami five of the inorganic elements of as 

 many varieties of cabbage. This is a most nutritious 

 vegetable : and we believe it can be grown with suffi- 

 cient economy to aid in making butter, cheese, and 

 wool, with a fair profit to the husbandman. 



Every tanner knows that cabbage needs rich land ; 

 Mr. Salisbury has demonstrated the reason why. 

 The varieties examined by him are the Drumhead, 

 Savoy, Red cabbage, Cauliflower, and Turnep cab- 

 bage. They all contain a good deal of water. 100 

 parts of the head of the common white or large Scotch 

 Drumhead gave only 11.335 dry weight and 88.665 

 water. The Savoy, contains about 2 per cent, less 

 of water, or 13.475 parts dry matter in 100 of the 

 fresh head. The Cauliflower contains still less water, 

 having 14.300 per cent, of dry substance. The Tur- 

 nep-rooted cabbage has nearly as much water as the 

 common turnep itself, giving 91.140 parts of the pure 

 liquid in 100 of the plant. 



Estimated dry, the Drumhead contains 6.969 per 

 cent, ash ; Savov 6.605 ; Red cabbage 7.695 ; Cau- 

 lirlowei 10.629 ; Turnep cabbage 9.086. They all 

 abound in phosphoric and sulphuric acids, combined 

 wiJi soda, potash, magnesia, lime, and iron. They 

 are quite an exhausting crop. Supposing an acre of 

 choice land to yield, as it has done, 36 tons of the 

 Drumhead variety, the crop would take from the soil 

 in pounds, the following minerals: 



Silicic acid, 2.958 lbs. 



Sulphuric acid, . 56.134 " 



Phosphoric ncid, G3.784 " 



Phosphate of per oxide of iron, 5.916 " 



Lime 14.484 " 



Magnesia,.. 17.986 " 



Potash, 142.448 " 



Soda 1G1.772 " 



Chlorine, 3.978 " 



Total, 468.450 " 



Of these 468 lbs. 304 are pure soda and potash, and 

 120 lbs. phosphoric and sulphuric acids. 



Cabbage is found to contain a large amount of 

 organized nitrogen or azote. Calculated dry, i. e. 

 after the water is all evaporated, Drumhead gives 

 17.899 parts in 100 ; Savoy 20.281 ; Cauliflower 

 20.763; Red 16.212; Turnep-rooted 19.052. Dry 

 lean beef and dry blood contain within a fraction of 15 

 parts in 100 of nitrogen. Skin has 18.72 per cent.: 

 wool, hair and horn a little less than IB per cent. 



From the above statement it will be seen that the 

 plant under consideration is remarkably rich in nitro- 

 gen, phosphorus and sulphur ; and when cabbage 

 decays or rots, it smells not unlike decomposing meat 

 or eggs. A cow can elaborate a good deal of cheese, 

 and a turkey organize eggs, by eating cabbage. — 

 That healthy children can be raised in a good degree 

 oil this food, other countries beside Holland and Bel- 

 gium can bear witness. 



A vegetable so abounding in the elements of bone, 

 skin, brain, and all flesh, demands a soil pretty thor- 

 oughly saturated with (ihhnal manure. The* liquid 

 excretions of animals, common salt to yield soda, 

 wood ashes to furnish potash, bones to supply phos- 

 phoric acid, and gypsum to add sulphur and lime, 



Will -.ill (-nnie in play. With rich well-plowed land, 

 industrious beys can raise and house, or bury in the 

 lot, a good many dollars worth of cabbage, and not 

 greatly interfere with their other duties. Si e 

 the seed is sown early, and every thing attended to in 

 season. Perhaps the large pcr centagc of water in 

 this crop will deter some from trying to grow 36 tons 

 on an acre. It should not. There are 75 lbs. of water 

 in 100 of fresh lean beef. Near cities where night 

 soil can be had, cabbage seed mighl be drilled like 

 turneps in fields, and cultivated partly with a small 

 plow, or some other implement drawn by a horse. 



GOLDEN DREAMS. 



California Gold, its effects on business and black legs— Ad- 

 vance in land and digging Haters — Beggary of Mortgagees 

 and Silk Stockings — Considerable of a Shower — All the 

 tvorld mad and in straight jackets — The wise all rich, S,"\ 



What will be the result of the recent discovrey of 

 the precious metals in our new acquisitions from 

 Mexico, on the business, morals, and politics of our 

 country ? If only a moiety of the reports arc true, 

 and there can not be a rational doubt indulged on the 

 subject, there is a revolution at hand in all of our 

 preconceived notions, habits, and pecuniary relations, 

 such as the world never experienced. 



If gold was as plenty as iron, it would be worth 

 no more than iron, nor would a pound of it buy any 

 more belly timber than a pound of iron. Real estate, 

 farming lands, and labor, being the only real produ- 

 cing agents, the primum mobile of wealth, must 

 advance with giant strides : and all those who now 

 live on the representative of the "almighty dollar"-- 

 on the dividends, or interest of bonds, mortgi 

 government stocks and others of fixed value, and all 

 who subsist on salaries, annuities and pensions, will 

 become beggars. The time is at hand when a bar- 

 rel of flour will cost $20, a pound of meat and butter 

 50 cents, and other necessaries in proportion : a half 

 eagle will not buy as much as a silver dollar will 

 now ; the dividends and salaries that now support the 

 wealthy in luxuries and extravagance, won't buy 

 Johnny-cake and salt to support nature. 



If gold becomes extremely plenty, it must of neces- 

 sity depreciate in value, or rather every article of 

 production will advance in price, as it always did and 

 ever will, at every great inflation of the currency. 

 No man ever got five dollars very easily, but what 

 he did, or was tempted to play the fool with it : what 

 has been, will be, to the end of time. 



Land, machiney, and labor, will be the great levers 

 that will move the world, and before one year passes, 

 if the clouds of the golden shower continue to rise 

 from the western horizon, there will begin an inquiry 

 for real estate, and monied capitalists will resort to 

 that investment as the only ark of safety for their 

 funds ; so old square toes, hold on to your acres and 

 bide your time — don't be fooled with the idea that 

 " it is not going to be much of a shower." 



Now, is there any foundation for believing any of 

 these predictions ? Let us see. The accounts that 

 we receive is, that gold is found in various localities 

 embracing 10 to 20,000 square miles of surface — say 

 10,000, that is 640,000 acres, which at 10 acres to a 

 person, which is a mineral lot in the U. S. lead 

 mines, would allow a lot to 64,000 persons. Each one 

 procuring an ounce per day, which is a low rate, is 

 considerably over a. million of dollars per day, and 



