240 JOHNSTOWN. 



He has not for five or fix years paft been 

 without a fmall field of Scotch cabbages. The 

 feed he fows both in March and autumn for 

 ufe at different feafons ; the rows he plants 

 three feet afunder, and two feet from cabbage 

 to cabbage. He has ufed them for fat fheep 

 and fat cattle, but principally for weaned 

 calves : they have anfwered perfectly well in all, 

 but remarkably fo with the calves, of which 

 Mr. Holmes has had the beft in the country, 

 and fingly from being thus fed. His people 

 were all of opinion, that a good acre ot cab- 

 bages will go as far as two acres of turnips, 

 worth each 3!. Two years ago a violent froft 

 flopped the ufe of turnips, and he then found 

 the benefit of them prodigioufly great. He 

 has always manured for them with dung or 

 marie, the former beft. 



RAPE CAKE, 



Mr. Holmes has ufed as a manure, with 

 great fuccefs : in 1775, he drefled two acres 

 of worn out meadow, with a ton and an half 

 an acre, at 2!. 2s. per ton; and in 1776, he 

 laid on feven tons, at i-j. per acre ; the firft 

 trial was made too late, and a dry feafon com- 

 ing, the effect was not great, The laft year it 

 was laid on the fifth of April, when the effect 

 was remarkably great : it threw up a moft 

 luxuriant crop of the fineft herbage, infomuch 

 that he is convinced nothing can anlwer better, 

 and is determined to extend the practice con- 

 fiderably. He has tried it on low, wet, and 



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