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the deptli of about half an inch. This was about the first week 

 in April. About the first of May, I hoed and thinned, leaving 

 two plants to a hill. On the second hoeing, left but one plant 

 to a hill. When the plants were young, I spread plaster of 

 Paris around and on them, to prevent the little black insects 

 from destroying them ; I did this once or twice a week for two 

 or three weeks. 



From this land I have gathered five thousand five hundred 

 cabbages, averaging from twenty to twenty-five pounds'per head 

 without stumps. I have weighed several vilh stumps and leaves 

 and found them to average from forty to fifty pounds. I took 

 sixty of the last lot gathered, and had them weighed on J. L. 

 Dodge's scales, and found their aggregate net weight to be one 

 thousand eight hundred and ninety pounds. 



In consequence of the great crop of cabbages this year, the 

 prices have been quite low. The average price that I obtained 

 for mine, was seven dollars per hundred. The first part of the 

 season, I sold some for ten dollars per hundred, but none 

 during any part of the season for less than six dollars per 

 hundred. I subjoin some of the most important statistics : — 



Cost of marketing, . ' . 

 Nine cords of manure. 

 Hoeing and cultivating. 

 Rent of land, . 

 Preparing ground, . 

 One case of plaster of Paris, 



Total receipts from sales at $7 per hundred. 



Net, •• 8172 00 



I also sowed seven thousand cabbages under glass, in March 

 last, of the variety known as "Yorkers." These I transplanted 

 in April into old ground, which had Ijccn planted the previous 

 year with potatoes. I placed my hills two feet apart one way, 

 and two and a half feet apart the other, and into each hill put 

 a shovelful of compost made up of barn manure, night-cart 

 manure and meadow mud, in equal parts, using about five 



