10 CABBAGES, HOW TO GROW THEM, ETC. 



five cords will give a fair crop of the small varieties ; 

 while, with the same conditions, from nine to twelve 

 cords to the acre will be required to perfect the largest 

 variety grown, the Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead. 



Of the other kinds of manure named above I will 

 treat farther under the head of 



HOW TO APPLY THE MANURE. 



The manure is sometimes applied wholly in the hill, 

 at other times partly broadcast and partly in the hill. 

 If the farmer desires to make the utmost use of his ma- 

 nure for that season, it will be best to put most of it into 

 the hill, particularly if his supply runs rather short ; 

 but if he desires to leave his land in good condition for 

 next year's crop, he had better use part of it broadcast. 

 My own practice is to use all my rich compost broadcast, 

 and depend on guano, phosphates, or hen manure in 

 the hill. Let all guano, if at all lumpy, like the Peru- 

 vian, be sifted, and let all the hard' lumps be reduced by 

 pounding, until the largest pieces shall not be larger 

 than half a pea, before it is brought upon the ground. 

 My land being ready, the compost worked under and 

 the rows marked out, I select three trusty hands who 

 can be relied upon to follow faithfully my directions in 

 applying so dangerous manure as guano is in careless or 

 ignorant hands ; one takes a bucket of it, and, if for 

 large cabbage, drops as much as he can readily close in 

 his hand, where each hill is to be ; if for small sorts, 

 then about half that quantity, spreading it over a circle 

 about a foot in diameter; the second man follows with 

 a pronged hoe, or better yet, a six-tined fork, with 

 which he works the guano well into the soil, first turning 

 it three or four inches under the surface, and then stir- 



