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the farmer, because if lie is unable to sell the cabbage for table use, 

 they will pay even at $2 per 100 as a food for sheep or cattle. 



In addition to these the "American Drumhead Savoy" is grown to 

 a considerable extent, and it is really surprising that it is not grown to 

 the exclusion of nearly all other sorts, as it attains nearly as much 

 weight of crop, and is much more tender and finer in flavor. The 

 " Green Scotch " and " Brown German Kale " belong to the cabbage 

 family, but do not form heads. The curled leaves of the whole plant 

 can be used, and are, like the "Savoy," much finer in flavor than the 

 plain head cabbages, particularly after having been subjected to the 

 frost in fall. There are various methods of 



KEEPING CABBAGES IN WINTER. 



It is best to leave them out as late as possible, so that they can be 

 lifted before being frozen in. In this latitude, they can be safely left 

 out until third week in November. They are then dug or pulled up, 

 according to the nature of the soil, and turned upside down the 

 roots up, the heads down just where they have been growing, and 

 the heads placed closely together in beds, six or eight feet wide, with 

 alleys of about same width between, care being taken to have the 

 ground leveled so that the cabbages will set evenly together. They 

 can be left in this way for three or four weeks, or as long as the 

 ground remains so that it can be dug in the alleys between the beds, 

 the soil from which is thrown in on the beds of cabbage, so that 

 when finished they have a covering of six or seven inches of soil, or 

 sufficient to cover the roots completely up. Sometimes they are 

 covered up immediately on being lifted, by plowing a furrow, 

 shoveling it out wide enough to receive the heads, then plowing so as to 

 cover up, and so on till beds six or eight feet wide are thus formed. 

 This plan is the quickest, but it has the disadvantage, if the season 

 proves mild, of having the cabbages covered up too soon by the soil, 

 and hence more danger of decay. After the ground is frozen, stable 

 litter, straw or leaves, to the depth of three or four inches, should be 

 thrown over the cabbage beds, so as to prevent excessive freezing, 

 and to facilitate the getting at the cabbages in hard weather. 



INSECTS. 



The insects that attack the cabbage tribe are various, and for some 

 of them we regret to say that we are almost helpless in arresting 

 their ravages. Young cabbage plants in fall, or in hot-beds in spring, 

 are often troubled with the aphis, or, as it is popularly known, the 

 "green fly" or "green louse." This is easily destroyed by having 



