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it greatly improves the land ; and if they 

 are properly managed, it ferves for a fum- 

 mer fallow and there will be a very good 

 crop after cabbages without any dung. 



IF they are well managed and brought 

 to a large fize, there will be more weight 

 on an acre of good cabbages than there 

 poffibly can be on an acre of the very beft 

 turnips. They are eafier to cultivate ; 

 for they are not fubject to the fly, which 

 in dry feafons often deftroys whole fields 

 of turnips : whereas if winter cabbage- 

 plants are planted, they feldorn require any 

 water ; and for the fpring plants, if the 

 feafon is ever fo dry, a good watering at 

 planting willfuffice to make them grow. 



CABBAGES are of great ufe in deep mows 

 and hard frofts, when turnips cannot be 

 got ; and I have been informed, that if all 

 the rotten leaves are taken off, and the 

 found cabbages given to milk-cows, that 

 they affect neither butter nor milk. This 

 \ cannot affert as a fac~l that I have feen 

 P tried, 



