4 18 JtfLY. 



Practical Farmery or Hertfordshire Husbandman, 

 1732, p. 86. 



COLE- SEED. 



This plant may be sowed through all this month, 

 which is indeed the principal season for it. The 

 preparation of the land is exactly the same as for 

 turnips ; and it has equal success with turnips when 

 sown on pared and burnt land, which secures a 

 better crop generally than any other method of 

 manuring. Two or three, and even four quarts an 

 acre of the seed are sown. It is not common hus- 

 bandry to give it any hoeing. Upon peat soils pared 

 and burnt (as in the fens of Cambridge and Lin- 

 coln), it is reckoned much superior to turnips for 

 feeding and fattening sheep ; and usually sells, if a 

 good plant, at 50s. an acre. But in the hundreds of 

 Essex, they hoe it very carefully, and mowing the 

 crop with very strong scythes, give it to stall-fed 

 bullocks with the greatest success : upon very rich 

 soils, no system can well be superior to this. 



COLE-SEED WHERE TURNIPS FAIL. 

 The first, and even second sowings of turnips, 

 may have failed by the end of July ; in this case 

 some 1 farmers prefer sowing cole-seed rather than 

 turnips a third time. 



CABBAGES. 



The crop planted in April or May must be 

 looked to this month. As they were both hand 

 and horse-hoed in June, perhaps they will not 

 want any more culture till August ; but this de- 

 4. ' pends 



