FEBRUARY. 75 



any spring ploughing (now the common practice 

 on the strong lands in Suffolk, where they also 



fallow for barley), is a very superior practice, arid 

 attended with great success. 



SOW CABBAGE-SEED. 



The seed of cabbage intended to be planted in 

 June, may now be sown upon land which has been 

 pared and burnt in August (see the Calendar of 

 that month), and carefully manured and dug in 

 October ; but it must be well raked before sowing. 

 Before the farmer determines on this matter, he is 

 to consider another mode of cultivation, which is 

 upon the whole prefi rable, and will preclude his 

 trusting principally to the transplanting method. 

 This is, drilling the seed where the plants are to 

 remain, and for which April is the proper time, 

 under which month it will be particularly described. 

 Transplanting cabbages demands a very wet time 

 of at least two or three days; and, if hands are not 

 to be procured plentifully, of a longer duration ; 

 such a time may not occur when wanted : it must 

 then be waited for, perhaps while the plants are 

 drawing themselves up to long shauks in the seed- 

 bed, and thereby much damaged. This is a great 

 objection to the method, and often causes a light 

 crop on land which, from soil or preparation, is 

 equal to giving the largest. This inconvenience is 

 prevented by drilling the seed where the plants are 

 to remain. It will be the safer way to practise both 

 methods, and it is consequently necessary to de- 

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