164 FORAGE CROPS. 



it can be grown more successfully in cool and 

 moist latitudes than in those that are warm and dry. 

 But cabbages can be successfully grown in warmer 

 latitudes than either of these crops. Wherever they 

 can be successfully grown for table use without too 

 great an expenditure of labor, they can also be suc- 

 cessfully grown to provide sheep pasture. 



Place in the Rotation. — Cabbages may be suc- 

 cessfully grown for forage anywhere in the rotation, 

 but since they should receive cultivation while they 

 are growing, they should preferably be put on 

 ground that requires to be cleaned, and should ordi- 

 narily be followed by a crop of grain sown with 

 grass seeds. 



Soil. — The best soils for growing rape are also 

 the best for growing cabbage, and these have been 

 described previously when treating of rape. But it is 

 even more important that the land shall be rich when 

 growing a crop of cabbage on it than when growing 

 a crop of rape. Cabbage can also be successfully 

 grown on land that has too much clay in it to grow 

 rape well. It would not be wise, nevertheless, to 

 grow cabbage for forage on such land, as pasturing 

 off the crop late in autumn would tend very much 

 to impact the soil. 



Preparing the Soil. — In preparing the soil for 

 cabbage, the ground should, as a rule, be plowed 

 deeply the autumn previous. But there may be 

 localities, as those with winters open and rainy, 

 where it would be better not to plow in the autumn. 

 If not rich naturally, it should be made so by turn- 

 ing under a free application of farmyard manure, 

 in a somewhat advanced stage of decay. Where the 

 soils are leechy, the manure should be spread over 



