, AUGUST. 453 



Having on former occasions mentioned the great 

 importance of this crop, the less is necessary at 

 present ; still, however, I must urge our young 

 farmer to determine to have as many August- sown 

 cabbages as he can want for cattle, sheep, and 

 swine, from the first of October to the last of De- 

 cember. The size they come to is superior to 

 spring-sown plants, but they will not, in general, 

 last longer than December. The use is however so 

 great ; so exceedingly valuable for autumnal fatting 

 of oxen, feeding cows, fatting wethers, feeding 

 lioggit lambs, and supporting the whole herd of 

 swine, that one may, without hazard, assert, the 

 farmer who does not make a provision of them, 

 to be negligent in a very material point of his busi- 

 ness. I beg leave to refer the reader to my Nor- 

 thern and Eastern Tours, and to very many regis- 

 ters in the Annals of Jlgriciilturc, for abundant 

 information on this subject. 



DRILLED CABBAGE-SEED. 

 Cabbage-seed may be drilled on ridges where it is 

 to remain the last week in this month, or the be- 

 ginning of September, as directed in the Calendar 

 for April ; but the reader is to observe, that the be- 

 nefit of the practice has not that superiority which 

 attends the April drillings, by which a transplanta- 

 tion in June is avoided. When the seed is sown in 

 August, that operation takes place in a much safer 

 season. 



Gg3 TOTA* 



