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on the piece made heads of good size and hard. Towards the 

 close of the season, a few hundred were started to prevent 

 the heads from bursting, but I have noticed that oil what 

 might be termed country farms, as distinguished from those 

 on the sea-board, cabbages are far less likely to burst their 

 headS; which I attribute to the fact that the ground is not so 

 filled with manure, not haviug been so long in tillage, nor so 

 highly manured by the annual dressing of the soil. This fact 

 is of value to the farmer, as he can safely plant his late Cab- 

 bage earlier in the season, and get as large and as hard heads, 

 as on the seaboard, with less manure; the extra length ot 

 season for their growth being an equivalent. In saying this, 

 I would not be understood to state that large and hard heads 

 can be got without liberal manuring, but simply that as the 

 bursting of the heads being an end to all profitable growth, 

 and they are more apt to do this, and at an earlier day on the 

 rich lands of the sea coast, the country farmer can count on 

 this extra season for groAving as an equivalent for a propor- 

 tion of the manure that his seaboard brother is compelled to 

 use. 



The land had for the two previous years been devoted to 

 the growing of Onion seed, and had consequently received 

 liberal manuring, though of the varieties and quantities ap- 

 plied I have no record. The soil being very moist, and 

 having many large boulders, weighing from a few hundred 

 pounds up to several tons, scattered over the surface, last 

 spring I had it tile-drained and cleared of stone. In June I 

 applied a compost, composed in part of fish waste and soil, 

 and in part of glue waste and soil, about one part' fish waste 

 to four parts soil, and one part glue waste to two parts soil, 

 six cords tothe acre. This was plouo-hed in. After harrowinof 

 and furrowing out, I had applied to each hill — the rows 

 were three feet apart and the hills nearly three feet — one-third 

 of a shovelful of a compost made up of one part bone dust, 

 well deca3^ed, two parts Riverside super-phosphate, ten parts 

 ashes, and twelve parts of the fish and glue compost. The 

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