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pared by plow and harrow, and then to turn it into beds 

 with a one-horse plow. 



For applying bulky manures, either broadcast or in drill, 

 for cabbages, Irish potatoes, or other crops, the truck-farm- 

 ers who plant in the vicinity of Savannah on an exten- 

 sive scale use a manure-spreader. This applies the manure 

 not only evenly at a certain rate, which is very well reg- 

 ulated, but it cuts up and mixes the manure during the 

 distribution. Of stable manure accumulated under shel- 

 ter and well-rotted without having been fire-fanged, 

 forty two-horse wagon loads to the acre on good land, 

 which has previously been fertilized for a vegetable crop, 

 is a fair manuring. If of less valuable quality, the quan- 

 tity should be increased, or its character improved by 

 adding guano, etc., as above recommended. Instead of 

 stable manure, a good compost -applied in quantity pro- 

 portionate to its quality, may be used. This may con- 

 sist of Peruvian guano, or some reliable ammoniated 

 superphosphate of lime (acid phosphate), or of cotton 

 seed, or night-soil, composted with muck or leaf-mould. 

 If there be a specific manure for cabbage, it is good, 

 pure, fine bone-flour. 



Of the crops raised by the trunk-farmer, there are one 

 or two of which I may claim, without egotism, to have 

 produced stock of superior quality. Among these are 

 the two members of the Brassica genus, cultivated under 

 this latitude for the Northern markets. Being situated 

 too distant from the city to procure a satisfactory sup- 

 ply of stable manure, I cannot too urgently impress upon 

 my fellow-farmers, similarly situated, the indispensability 

 of plowing under the " Clover of the South," our cow 

 pea, for successful cabbage culture, and indeed, although 

 perhaps in less degree, for the growing of any other 

 crop. It should precede for them every other application 

 of manure for cabbages. Soda and potash are inter- 

 changeable in the composition of plants. Thus a plant 

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