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take a crop of barley, and then turnips : thus he 

 is thrown out of his clover, though as important a 

 crop as any on his farm, and launches into a series 

 of tillage, that cannot but prove very expensive to 

 him, without repaying the benefit that the clover- 

 course would have done. 



For these reasons, when the turnips fail, and 

 cabbages are not planted, the land should be laid 

 up in winter for barley, and the clover sown with 

 it, which will turn out far more profitable than 

 throwing in wheat. 



The cabbages planted in April, and hand-hoed 

 ^and horse- hoed in May, should now have the se- 

 cond of each of t operations given : a hand- 

 hoeing in the middle of the month, which must cut 

 up all weeds, and break the earth \vcll of the nar- 

 row slip on which the plants were left. Towards 

 the latter end, the double earth -board plough 

 should go in the intervals, splitting the rklge 

 thrown up in May, and returning .it to the rows. 

 These operations will be of grrat utility to the crop. 

 The cabbages drilled in April where to remain, 

 will demand much attention this month, to keep 

 them at a proper distance, the tops of the ridges 

 well hat>d-hoed, and the iatervals shimmed, that 

 they may be gradually reducing to a fine state of 

 pulverization. In all horse -hoed crops, these works 

 should be particularly attended to while the plants 

 are young?* for when they are much branched out, 

 the instruments cannot perform the work with any 



thing like the same effect. 



CABBAGE 



